DOSIO, Giovanni Antonio
(b. 1533, San Gimignano, d. 1609, Napoli)

Biography

Italian architect. A student of Ammanati, Dosio worked primarily in Florence, Rome, and Naples. Among his main works are the Gaddi Chapel in S. Maria Novella, Florence; Giacomini Palace (later called Larderel)in Florence; Tombs of Annibal Caro and Pacini in the church of San Lorenzo in Rome; Girolamini in Naples. He is the author of Urbis aedificiorum illustrium quae supersuni reliquiae (1569).