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Andrea Palladio
Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza, Italy, by Andrea Palladio, 1550–51.
The name "Palladio" was bestowed upon the architect Andrea by his mentor, the Humanist poet and scholar Gian Giorgio Trissino.1
Following a common Humanist practice of the time, Trissino gave him this name as an allusion to the mythological figure Pallas Athena and to a character in his own epic poem, Italia liberata dai goti ("Italy Liberated from the Goths"). This renaming served to signify the high hopes and intellectual potential Trissino saw in his protégé, whom he had taken under his wing to provide a formal education in mathematics, philosophy, and classical studies while the young mason worked on the reconstruction of the Villa Trissino.1