# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitruvius
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:48:29.225Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Vitruvius was a Roman architect and engineer in the 1st century BC who served as an artilleryman and army engineer, specializing in siege machinery like ballistae and scorpions, possibly under Julius Caesar's chief engineer. He wrote De architectura, a multi-volume work arguing that all buildings require firmitas, utilitas, and venustas — strength, utility, and beauty. The treatise circulated widely through the Middle Ages, then was "rediscovered" in 1414 at Saint Gall Abbey and published in print in Rome in 1486. Translations and illustrated editions followed across Europe, with the 1511 Venice edition adding woodcuts from the text's descriptions. Bramante, Michelangelo, Palladio, and Vignola all studied it, making Vitruvius the ghost architect behind centuries of European building.