Ignazio Danti, born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti in Perugia in April 1536 and dead on 10 October 1586, was an Italian Dominican prelate, mathematician, astronomer and cosmographer who served as Bishop of Alatri from 1583 to 1586. He came from a family of artists and scientists and learned the rudiments of painting and architecture from his father Giulio and from his aunt Teodora, who wrote a commentary on Euclid. He entered the Dominican Order in 1555, taking the name Ignazio, and devoted himself to mathematics, astronomy and geography. In Florence from 1562 he tutored the children of wealthy families, and in 1563 Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany, invited him to join his cosmographical project in the Guardaroba of the Palazzo Vecchio, where over a dozen years he painted thirty regional maps.
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(or Egnazio) Danti, O.P. (April 1536 – 10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583–1586). == Early life == Danti was born in
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(or Egnazio) Danti, O.P. (April 1536-10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583-1586). == Early life == Danti was born in
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(or Egnazio) Danti, O.P. (April 1536-10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583-1586). == Early life == Danti was born in
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a boy he learned the rudiments of painting and architecture from his father Giulio, an architect and engineer who studied under Antonio da Sangallo, and his aunt Teodora, who was said to have studied under the painter Perugino and also wrote a commentary
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O.P. (April 1536-10 October 1586), born Pellegrino Rainaldi Danti, was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer, who served as Bishop of Alatri (1583-1586). == Early life == Danti was born in Perugia in 1536 to a
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