Engraved portrait used by Vasari in his “Vite” for unknown pople.
Paolo Santini was an italian military engineer and treatizer of XVI century. He is known for his treatizer “De Machinis”, copied fron Taccola’s treatize. In Santini codex are building and military machines. Today there are two copies of Santini’s codex, one in Paris and another in Turin.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, history of drawing, engieneer, designer, inventor, treatizer.