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          Guarino Guarini, born 17 January in Modena.

        1. Guarino Guarini, born 17 January in Modena.
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        4. Guarino Guarini () was an Italian architect, priest, mathematician, theologian, and writer.
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          Biography

          Italian architect and theorist. He was accepted as a Theatine novice in 1639, spent his novitiate at the monastery of San Silvestro al Quirinale in Rome, and returned to Modena in 1647, where he was ordained in 1648.

          He became provost in 1654. He left Modena and became a member of the Theatine House of Parma in 1656 and apparently visited Prague and Lisbon before publishing his play La Pieta trionfante in Messina in 1660, where he was a lecturer in mathematics.

          He wrote four mathematical books in both Latin and Italian, of which Euclides adauctus is a work on descriptive geometry.

          In 1665, he published a mathematical-philosophical tract Placita Philosophica defending the geocentric universe against Copernicus and Galileo.

          He designed a large number of public and private buildings in Turin, including the palaces of the Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, the Royal Church of San Lorenzo, most of the Chapel of the Holy Shroud (housing the Shroud of Turin; begun in 166