della Volpaia, Benvenuto (1486 - 1532)

Inventor, designer

Benvenuto della Volpaia, son of Lorenzo, famous architect and precision mechanic, was a manufacturer of watches, tools and machines Building. He is remembered for a manuscript in which are illustrated with drawings and text machines and mechanical tools. The Codex is located in the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice..
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, engeieer, architect, , designer, inventor, treatizer.

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della Volpaia, Benvenuto

Curriculum vitae

* 05.12.1486	Firenze	born
1521		He studies in the workshop of his father Lorenzo
1521	Firenze	He repairs the clock built by his father in Mercato Nuovo in Florence
1521	Roma	He stayed in Rome to study
1531	Roma	He moved to Rome where he served the Pope
1532		The pope appoints him “Curator Aqueductus Belvederis et Suprastans fontis platee Sancti Petri de Urbe”
† 15.07.1532	Roma	died

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Early modern times, ca. 1500-1780

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Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_8183004.html

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