Engraved portrait used by Vasari in his “Vite” for unknown pople.
Giovanni Battista Cordini (da Sangallo) named “The hunchback”. He was an Italian architect. He the younger brother of the more famous Antonio da Sangallo the Younger. Beyond operating as architect, he never did stop to study buiulding and lifting machines.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, architect, designer, inventor, Rome, Renaissance.