In the history of building, Giovanni Francesco Mormando is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Giovanni Francesco Mormando as Italian architect.
Giovanni Francesco Mormando was born at Mormanno in 1449.
The Renaissance made the architect an individual with a signature, a theory and a reputation, working from drawings rather than on site.
He is recorded as architect.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
Giovanni Francesco Mormando died in 1530, aged 81. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
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