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Architecture of the italian enlightenment, 1750–1800- part 3

Architecture of the italian enlightenment, 1750–1800- part 3

Fernando Fuga and the Albergo dei Poveri While Vanvitelli developed the worldly Caserta, to Ferdinando Fuga fell a more mundane but no less instrumental element of Bourbon rule: the Albergo dei Poveri in Naples. Born a Florentine, Fuga came to Rome to study at the Accademia di San Luca. He had proposed a project for [...]