11 Facts About Antonio Manetti

1.

Antonio di Tuccio Manetti was an Italian mathematician and architect from Florence.

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Antonio Manetti is particularly noted for his investigations into the site, shape and size of Dante's Inferno.

3.

Antonio Manetti is famous for his short story, The Fat Woodworker, which recounts a cruel practical joke devised by Brunelleschi.

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Antonio Manetti was further a member of the Arte di Por Santa Maria, one of the seven Arti Maggiori guilds of Florence.

5.

Antonio Manetti became a member of the Balia a year later and in 1475 he became the Vicario of the Valdarno di Sopra.

6.

Recent documents suggest that during 1466 Antonio Manetti was part of the operai of the Spedale degli Innocenti.

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The third publication was an edited version of Moreni's translation by Heinrich Holtzinger which attributes the work to Antonio Manetti, citing Milanesi as his source.

8.

Cornel von Fabriczy has attempted a more accurate dating than the death of Antonio Manetti and set the work in the 1480s.

9.

Subsequently, if the document is merely a copy and not the original, Antonio Manetti is not the original author of the Magl.

10.

Antonio Manetti proposes a direct line from the center of the earth, simultaneously the heaviest part of the universe, to Jerusalem.

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Antonio Manetti has gained a deeper understanding of the meaning of self and even smiles when Brunelleschi finally reveals himself as the mastermind some years later.