Francesco Borromini
25 September 1599 — 2 August 1667
Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 13, 69.
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