Camillo-Guarino Guarini

Camillo-Guarino Guarini (1624 - 1683), Italian monk, writer and architect, was born at Modena.

He 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 died at Milan.

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