Antonio Manetti was an Italian

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 mathematician

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 and architect

Architect

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 from Florence

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. He was also the biographer of the architect Filippo Brunelleschi

Filippo Brunelleschi

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He is particularly noted for his investigations into the site, shape and size of Dante

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's Inferno. Although Manetti never himself published his research regarding the topic, the earliest Renaissance Florentine editors of the poem, Cristoforo Landino

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 and Girolamo Benivieni

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, reported the results of his researches in their respective editions of the Divine Comedy. Manetti is also famous for his short story, The Fat Woodcarver, which recounts a cruel practical joke devised by Brunelleschi.

External links

• http://www.italnet.nd.edu/Dante/text/Hell.html