Aristotle Fioravanti

Career Aristotle started brilliantly. Since 1447 his father continued to work together with the uncle, an architect working on a number of complex engineering projects. Under his leadership in 1455 was moved belltower of St. Mark in Bologna, for which the City Council granted him the rank of sergeant loggia masons of his native city, and appointed for life support. Then straighten Fioravanti bell Chento in the city and a tower at the Church of the Holy Angels in Venice. The last of the weakness of the soil prostoyala just two days and failed, asking a few people. Because of this tragedy, Aristotle immediately left Venice and no longer returned.

In 1458 he restored the ancient bridge in Pavia, and in the 1459-1460 biennium. arranged Parma channel. Since 1458, he was in the service of the Duke of Milan, Francesco Sforza, and returned to Bologna in 1464. Mainly at this time of Aristotle was in demand as an engineer, as well as in the cities of northern Italy, including Milan, an important military and political center, needed exactly these skills. In Milan, he worked with the famous architect Antonio Averelino called Filaret, the author of the bronze doors of St. Peter's in Rome. Filaret in the treatise on architecture several times with great commended for Fioravanti.

Shortly after returning to his native city, in 1465 Fioravanti was invited to the court of the Hungarian King Matyasha Corvina, but the urban commune of masons let it in Hungary in 1467. In the yard of the Hungarian King Aristotle builds basically a bridge over the Danube.