Filippo Terzi

Filippo Terzi (1520–1597) was an Italian military and civil architect and engineer, born in Bologna, who went to Lisbon in 1577 and the following year joined the disastrous military expedition to Morocco where he was taken prisoner at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir. After this, his release was negotiated and he returned to Portugal, where he spent the remainder of his career, dying at Setúbal.