GARDENERS MENTIONED 
near Siena, as well as that of Belcaro. The well-known Palazzo 
Massimi alle Colonne in Rome is his work, also the Villa Trivulzio 
near Rome. 
PIRANESI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) 
i 720-1 778 
Piranesi, the famous Venetian etcher and engraver, was specially 
noted for his etchings of famous buildings, and has been called “ The 
Rembrandt of Architecture/’ He was also an architect, and worked 
on the church of S. Maria del Popolo in Rome. While there he 
also remodelled the chapel of the Priory of the Knights of Malta, and 
probably laid out the grounds. Piranesi published over twenty folio 
volumes of engravings and etchings. 
PONZIO (FLAMINIO) 
1575-1620 
Ponzio, a Lombard architect, built the loggia of the Villa Mondragone 
at Frascati, and the Palazzo Sciarra, and finished the Borghese Chapel 
in the church of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome. 
PORTA (GIACOMO DELLA) 
1541-1604 
Della Porta, a Milanese architect, was a pupil of Vignola’s. His great 
work was the finishing of the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome, in doing 
which he followed Michelangelo’s plan, but improved the curve. His 
other works in Rome were : the churches of II Gesu, S. Luigi de’ 
Francesi, S. Catarina de’ Funari, the Palazzo Paluzzi, the facade of 
the Palazzo Chigi, the famous fountains in the Piazza d’Araceli and 
the Piazza Navona (for which Bernini supplied the sculpture), and the 
Fontana delle Tartarughe. In Genoa he finished the church of the 
S. S. Annunziata, and he was employed on the Villa d’Es^e at Tivoli 
and the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati. 
PRATI 
XVIII Century 
Prati collaborated with Count Frigimelica in building the Villa Pisani, 
at Stra near Venice, in the eighteenth century. 
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