Vincenzo Lunardi

Vincenzo Lunardi ( born January 11, 1759 in Lucca, † 1799 in Lisbon, Portugal ) was an Italian aviation pioneer and diplomat.

Life

Lunardi was an officer in the Neapolitan pioneer troops, as secretary of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Naples, Prince Caramanico, Lunardi came to England in 1784. Lunardi undertook after the invention of balloons in France by Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier his brother the first hot-air ballooning in the UK. Lunardi was unmarried and childless.