Marianos taccola biography
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Mariano Taccola
Mariano di Jacopo detto il Taccola (1381 – ca. 1453), called Taccola (the crow),[a] was an Italianartist, engineer and administrator.
He lived during the early Renaissanceperiod. He wrote two important books, De ingeneis and De machinis.
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These hand-drawn books have drawings of many new (for his time) machines. There are also descriptions of the machines. Leonardo da Vinci and other people used his books in the later Renaissance.
Life
[change | change source]Mariano Taccola was born in Siena in 1381.[2][3] His father was a winemerchant named Jacopo.[1] His mother's name was Madonna Nofria (Bacci).[3] The name he was given at his baptism was Mariano Daniello.[4] Taccola himself used the name Ser Mariani Jacobi decti.[4] He had many different jobs.
Records show Taccola had been a wood carver who made church ornaments.[2] He was a public official, a secretary to a hospital. Ta