DELLA GRECA. - Two architects of this name worked in Rome in the seventeenth century.
VINCENZO, born in Palermo, died after 1652. Having come to Rome in 1616, he was first a pupil of G. B. Montano and then of Maderno, whom he succeeded in the construction of palazzo Chigi; he is credited with completing the courtyard and the grand staircase. In 1651 he built the church of S. Gajo, which stood along the route of the present-day via XX Settembre (demolished in 1885), and in 1652 the façade of SS. Domenico e Sisto, his principal work, still following Renaissance schemes, but preceded by a pincer-shaped staircase which, through the sinuosity of its lines, seems to anticipate the eighteenth century.
FELICE, son of the preceding, born in Rome about 1626, died there after 1677. After having assisted his father in the courtyard of palazzo Chigi, in 1655 he entered the service of the Camera Apostolica, where he is mentioned only as the maker of models and as a surveyor of buildings. The only work known by him is the façade of the church of the Angelo Custode. Mario Zocca