Cipriano Di Michele Piccolpasso

Place: Castel Durante

Born: 1524

Death: 1579

Biography:

Cipriano di Michele Piccolpasso (1524 – 21 November 1579) was a member of an Italian patrician family of Bologna that had been settled since the mid-fifteenth century in Castel Durante, which was an important center for the manufacture of maiolica. He had the humanist education of his station in life and was trained as a surveyor and civil and mili...