Camillo-Guarino Guarini

architect ecclesiastic mathematician writer

January 17, 1624 (age 59)

Modena, Italy

Guarini was at once a learned mathematician, professor of literature and philosophy at Messina, and, from the age of seventeen, was architect to Duke Philibert of Savoy. He designed a very large number of public and private buildings at Turin, including the palaces of the duke of Savoy and the prince of Cacignan, and many public buildings at Modena, Verona, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon and Paris. He wrote four mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which" Euclides adauctus" is a work on descriptive geometry. In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract "Placita Philosophica" defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo. He died at Milan in 1683.

Camillo-Guarino Guarini Edit Profile

architect ecclesiastic mathematician writer

Background

Guarini was born in Modena in 1624.

Career

Guarini was at once a learned mathematician, professor of literature and philosophy at Messina, and, from the age of seventeen, was architect to Duke Philibert of Savoy. He designed a very large number of public and private buildings at Turin, including the palaces of the duke of Savoy and the prince of Cacignan, and many public buildings at Modena, Verona, Vienna, Prague, Lisbon and Paris.

He wrote four mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which" Euclides adauctus" is a work on descriptive geometry. In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract "Placita Philosophica" defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo. He died at Milan in 1683.

Achievements

Guarini's designs and books on architecture made him a major source for later Baroque architects in central Europe and northern Italy. His Palazzo Carignan is regarded as one of the finest urban palaces of the second half of the 17th century in Italy.

Membership

Guarino Guarini was a Member of the Theatine House of Parma.

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