Jacopo Passavanti is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Jacopo Passavanti as Italian writer and architect.
Jacopo Passavanti was born at Florence in 1302.
Medieval construction was collective and slow - cathedrals outlasted the men who began them - and the master mason was a craftsman rather than an author.
He is recorded as writer and architect.
Among his best-known works are Parlamento tra Scipione e Annibale, Trattato dei sogni and Trattato della scienza. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Jacopo Passavanti died in 1357, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Parlamento tra Scipione e Annibale
- Notable work: Trattato dei sogni
- Notable work: Trattato della scienza
- Notable work: Trattato della vanagloria
