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Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi

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Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi (Siena-Austria, d. 1573), the son of Baldassare Peruzzi was also an architect. In Rome he designed the ceremonial entrance to the Castel Sant'Angelo, and designed and began the rebuilding of S.Maria in Traspontina in Borgo, today on via della Conciliazione (from 1566, not finished until 1668), where the travertine for its facade was quarried from the Colosseum (Nyborg). He collaborated with Pirro Ligorio at the Casina of Pope Pius IV. Moreover, he supervised the construction, at expense of the Jewish community, of the walls of the Roman Ghetto.

After 1567 he went to Vienna, where he worked as an engineer and architect for Emperor Maximilian II.

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