Enciclopedia Cattolica

ALFIERI, BENEDETTO INNOCENTE

Volume I · p. 516 · 1948

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Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

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BENEDETTO INNOCENTE ALFIERI. — Architect, of a noble Asti family, born in Rome in 1700, where he had Pope Innocent XII as his godfather, died in Turin on 9 December 1767. He trained in Rome, where he studied the
ALFIERI, BENEDETTO INNOCENTE — Façade of the Vercelli cathedral (18th century).

He studied antiquity and the Renaissance in Rome. He designed the façade of the Vercelli cathedral, inspired by that of St John Lateran (v. GALILEI A); in Novara he erected the bell tower of St Gaudenzium; in Carignano he built the church of SS. John the Baptist and Remigius, notable for its semi-elliptical plan. He also constructed civil buildings in Turin and other cities of Piedmont.

BIBL.: G. Chevalley, Un avvocato architetto, il conte B. A., Torino 1916; A. E. Brinckmann, Theatrum novum Pedemontii etc., Düsseldorf 1931; G. Rodolfo, L'architettura Barocca in Carignano, in Atti e Memorie del II Congresso della Soc. piemontese di Arch. e Belle Arti (1933), Torino 1937, pp. 130-86. Vincenzo Golzio
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“ALFIERI, BENEDETTO INNOCENTE.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), p. 516. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/alfieri-benedetto-innocente.