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Filarete
Filarete, born Antonio di Pietro Averlino, was a Florentine sculptor and architect. He cast the bronze doors of Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome and from 1451 worked in Milan for Francesco Sforza, designing the Ospedale Maggiore and working on the Sforza Castle. His Treatise on Architecture describes Sforzinda, a star-shaped ideal city, one of the first planned ideal cities of the Renaissance.
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