Giovanni Giocondo made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Giovanni Giocondo as Italian friar, architect, antiquary, archaeologist, and classical scholar.
Giovanni Giocondo was born at Verona in 1433. His recorded nationality is the Republic of Venice.
This was the period in which observation began to outrank inherited authority, and printing let work reach readers who would never meet its author.
Giovanni Giocondo is described as architect, restorer and classical scholar.
His principal work is pont Notre-Dame. The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
Working from the Republic of Venice shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1515, at 82. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: pont Notre-Dame
- Worked as architect, restorer and classical scholar
