Word: architetto
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...think that if someone asked me to design a new universe, I'd be mad enough to undertake it," wrote young Giovanni Battista Piranesi to a friend. Nobody asked him. In fact, nobody asked him to design any major building at all, though he always signed himself Architetto. Instead, he became known to his contemporaries as "the Rembrandt of Ruins...
Romans were busy converting their palazzi into flats for tourists; there were no commissions for an unfledged architetto veneziano. But if Piranesi couldn't build new.buildings, he decided, he would draw the old ones before they disappeared entirely...
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