# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-battista-cairati
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:56:41.206Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-battista-cairati"
name: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
slug: "giovanni-battista-cairati"
description: "Giovanni Battista Cairati, known in Portuguese as João Baptista Cairato, was an Italian architect and engineer. Cairati was a leading military architect and, after the union of the Portuguese and Spanish empires in 1580, he was sent to the east by Philip II to redesign many of the fortresses. He dominated Portuguese military architecture in the Orient from the African coast to Malacca from 1583 to 1596."
tagline: "Architect and military engineering (died 1596)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1550"
deathDate: "1596"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.269978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Cairati"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
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    title: "جيوڤانى باتيستا كايراتى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Cairati"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Cairati"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Cairati"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Cairati"
    title: "Giovanni Battista Cairati"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10289884"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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