# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abramo-colorni
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:27:08.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abramo-colorni"
name: "Abramo Colorni"
slug: "abramo-colorni"
description: "Abramo Colorni was an Italian-Jewish polymath and Renaissance man. An engineer, architect, mathematician, chiromancer, cryptographer, alchemist, inventor, magus (magician) and merchant, Colorni spent nine years as a Court Jew for Rudolf II. He is the author of the 1593 treatise on cryptography, Scotographia. As court alchemist, he was a major player in cultural transfer from Italy to Baden-Wurttemberg and Prague. He was born in, and died in, Mantua, Italy."
tagline: "Italian-Jewish polymath (1544–1599)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Scotographia%2C_title_page_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Scotographia%2C_title_page_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1544"
deathDate: "1599"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.76
  momentum:             1.25
  historical:           3.941253333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramo_Colorni"
    title: "Abramo Colorni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramo_Colorni"
    title: "Abramo Colorni"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%2C_%D0%90%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE"
    title: "Колорни, Абрамо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abramo_Colorni"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21548116"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump