Taccola
Mariano di Jacopo (1382 – c. 1453), called
Taccola ("
the jackdaw"), was an
Italian polymath, administrator, artist and engineer of the early
Renaissance. Taccola is known for his technological treatises ''De ingeneis'' and ''De machinis'', which feature annotated drawings of a wide array of innovative machines and devices. Taccola's work was widely studied and copied by later Renaissance engineers and artists, among them
Francesco di Giorgio, and
Leonardo da Vinci.
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