Biringuccio, Vanoccio (1480 - 1537)

Inventor, designer

Italian scholar, mechanical and metallurgist and armament maker, traelled in Italy and Germany. Chiefly known as the author of De la pirotechnia (1540; “Concerning Pyrotechnics”), the first clear, comprehensive work on metallurgy. Who-is-Who in MMS, metallurgical amd military engineer, treatiser, Renaissance

variant spelling:
Biringuccio, Vanoccio

Curriculum vitae

* 1480	Siena	Born before 20 October in Siena
1513	Siena	Urban foreman of the armory Siena
1515 - 1523		Escape from Siena for political reasons, exile and ostracism by his hometown; restless wanderer
1523	Siena	Return to Siena, again foreman of the armory
1526		Second escape and exile from Siena
1529	Siena	Return to Siena, working as architect and builder
1534		Appointed captain of artillery by Pope Paul III. and head of the papal foundry
1534 - 1535		"De la Pirotechnica"; appear posthumously in 1540 in Venice
† 1537	Rom	Died in Rome

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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780

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DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=1590004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_1590004.html

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Biringuccio, Vanoccio (1480 - 1537)