In one of his best essays Mr. Sansom expresses his enthusiasm for the many country mansions designed by Andrea Palladio himself that dot the environs of Vicenza.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

The Tuscan order in Andrea Palladio, Quattro Libri di Architettura, 1570

Andrea Palladio, the famous Italian architect of the 16th century, built many mansions with plain exteriors and stunning interiors filled with frescoes.

* 1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.

* August 19 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect ( b. 1508 )

* Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell ' Architettura in Venice.

* November 30 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect ( d. 1580 )

Sebastiano Serlio ; the Regola delli cinque ordini of Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola ( 1507 – 1573 ); the Quattro libri di Architettura of Andrea Palladio, and Vincenzo Scamozzi's Idea della Architettura Universale, were followed in the 17th century by French treatises with further refined engraved models, such as Perrault's.

Padua is also the birthplace of the famous architect Andrea Palladio, whose 16th century " ville " ( country-houses ) in the area of Padua, Venice, Vicenza and Treviso are among the most beautiful of Italy and they were often copied during the 18th and 19th centuries ; and of Giovanni Battista Belzoni, adventure-man, engineer and egyptologist.

The house, which Jefferson designed, was based on the neoclassical principles described in the books of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

Palazzo facade drawn by Andrea Palladio, purchased in Italy by Inigo Jones.

The RIBA's holdings of over 330 drawings by Andrea Palladio are the largest in the world, other Europeans well represented are Jacques Gentilhatre and Antonio Visentini.

The 16th century was the time of Andrea Palladio, who left many outstanding examples of his art with palaces and villas in the city's territory, which before Palladio's passage, was arguably the most downtrodden and esthetically lacking city of the Veneto.

* Andrea Palladio, architect

* Video introduction to Teatro Olimpico by Andrea Palladio

In the subsequent rebuilding work it was decided to respect the original Gothic style, despite the submission of a neo-classical alternative designs by the influential Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.

The present decoration is a work by Antonio da Ponte and design by Andrea Palladio and Antonio Rusconi.

The decorations were designed by Andrea Palladio to replace that destroyed in the 1574 fire ; the wood panelling of the walls and end tribune and the carved ceiling are the work of Francesco Bello and Andrea da Faenza.

The house was designed by the Palladian architects James Paine and Matthew Brettingham and was loosely based on an original plan by Andrea Palladio for the never-built Villa Mocenigo.

Chiswick Villa is inspired in part by several buildings of the 16th-century Italian architects Andrea Palladio ( 1508 – 1580 ) and his assistant Vincenzo Scamozzi ( 1552 – 1616 ).

Lord Burlington was not just restricted to the influence of Andrea Palladio as his library list at Chiswick indicates.

Three concentric relieving arches at rear of the Villa containing Venetian window s. This arrangement derives directly from drawings by Andrea Palladio in Lord Burlington's collection

* 1925 – Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, Italian cardinal

* 1972 – Andrea de Rossi, Italian rugby player and coach

Andrea Andreani ( 1540 – 1623 ) was an Italian engraver on wood, who was among the first printmakers in Italy to use chiaroscuro, which required multiple colours.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

* 1983 – Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player

Giovanni d ' Andrea or Johannes Andreæ, ( c. 1270 / 1275 – 1348 ) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages.

* 1956 – 45 miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sinks the next day, killing 51.

* 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer

* 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter ( d. 1530 )

* 1973 – Andrea Scanavacca, Italian rugby player

Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans.

* 1981 – Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer

* 1976 – Andrea Lo Cicero, Italian rugby player

* 1988 – Andrea Catellani, Italian footballer

* 1964 – Andrea Montermini, Italian race car driver

* 1741 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer ( d. 1801 )

* 1979 – Andrea Benatti, Italian rugby player

* 1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter ( b. 1754 )

* 1985 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian basketball player

Italian historian Andrea Del Col estimates that out of 51, 000 — 75, 000 cases judged by Inquisition in Italy after 1542 around 1, 250 resulted in a death sentence.

* 1981 – Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer

* 1970 – Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter

* Andrea of Grosseto, Italian writer