Nicolò Barattieri

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Nicolò Barattieri was a Lombard engineer active in Venice of the 12th century. In 1180 he raised the Campanile of Venice to 200 feet.^[1] In about 1181 he built the first bridge across the Grand Canal a pontoon bridge that was the first version of the Rialto Bridge.^[2] Barattieri also erected the two columns in the Piazzetta di San Marco.^[3]

References

^ Richard Shelton Kirby (1 August 1990). Engineering in History. Courier Corporation. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-486-26412-7.
^ Paul Strathern (3 December 2013). The Venetians: A New History: From Marco Polo to Casanova. Pegasus Books. pp. 359–. ISBN 978-1-4804-4838-4.
^ Alethea Wiel (1894). Venice. G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 116–.