Cecca (Hist.)

Engineer, who had provided the huge drapery in the Piazza del Duomo for the Midsummer Day celebration. Francesco d'Angelo, called La Cecca (1447-1488), a famous Florentine engineer who devised ingenious machinery and elaborate decorations for the Midsummer Day and other great festivals and processions. For the description of these, from with George Eliot took her account, see Vasari, Lives.

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