Guitti, Francesco
- Angela Pampolini
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(b Ferrara, 1605; d Ferrara, c1645). Italian architect and designer. A pupil of Giambattista Aleotti, he devoted himself almost entirely to stage design in the then fashionable form of spectacle known as opera-torneo, in which he distinguished himself by inventing stage machines, illusionist devices and original landscape settings (e.g. in M. Rossi’s ...
