Mora — XVII Century
A Roman engineer of the name built some of the waterworks on the Isola Bella, near Como, in the seventeenth century.
Nolli (Antonio) — XVIII Century
Nolli laid out the grounds of the Villa Albani near Rome, in 1746.
Nolli (Pietro) — XVIII Century
Pietro Nolli is also mentioned as one of the landscape-gardeners who laid out the Villa Albani.
Olivieri (Orazio) of Tivoli XVI Century
Olivieri was employed as an engineer of the waterworks at the Villa d’Este at Tivoli and the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati.
Palladio (Andrea) 1508-1580
Palladio, the great Venetian architect, was born at Vicenza. He turned the development of Italian Renaissance architecture in the direction of pure classicalism, and was a master of proportion in building. At Vicenza he rebuilt the Sala della Ragione, and built the Palazzi Tiene and Valmarana and the Teatro Olimpico; while the Villa Capra or Rotonda, near Vicenza, is his work, and also the Villa Giacomelli at Maser. In Venice he erected the churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore, also the Villa Malcontenta near Fusina on the Brenta. Palladio published a “Treatise on Architecture” and “The Antiquities of Rome.”