Camillo Agrippa

Camillo Agrippa ( * before 1535; † around 1598 ) was an architect, engineer and mathematician of the Renaissance.

He was born in Milan and came to own statements in 1535 to Rome. At this time, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger studied Michelangelo and a way to transport the obelisk. Agrippa had been thinking about it for over thirty years and in 1583 published a memoir with his proposed solution.

1553 he published his Fechtbuch Trattato di scientia d'arme, con un dialogo di filosofia. Having been the focus of the fighting style had been lying on the bat, he focused on the stitch. From this new technology, the Rapier developed, and already in 1560 Michel de Montaigne remarked that Italy was the Fencing Academy of Europe. 1568 and 1604, the font was reprinted in Venice.

1574, Pope Gregory XIII. submit the architects and engineers to submit proposals on the transport and erection of the Obelisk ( Guglia = needle ) at St. Peter's Square. This was built in 1586 by Domenico Fontana.

Between 1553 and 1595 he published six journals.

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