Two Mantuan fantasies: Lombardy in the image of a garden and an architectural vertigo
1998; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 14; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/02666286.1998.10443949
ISSN1943-2178
Autores Tópico(s)History of Science and Medicine
ResumoAbstract Mario Equicola, who in 1508 became Isabella d'Este's tutor and in 1519 her secretary, while enumerating the merits of the second marquis of Mantua — Ludovico Gonzaga II — dedicated ample space in his Chronica di Mantua to that city's public clock. Situated atop the tower built by Luca Fancelli in December 1473, the clock was a true marvel of fifteenth-century mechanics and a wonderful example of astrological and astronomical machinery. On June 29 of that same year, the author of this stupefying mechanism, the mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Bartolomeo Manfredi, informed the Prince that the machine had been completed and invited Gonzaga to his home the better to see it in operation while the construction of the tower was being completed.
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