Pacello da Mercogliano

Pacello da Mercogliano was an Italian-born garden designer and hydraulic engineer, who is documented as working for Charles VIII at Amboise, France, with the responsibility of bringing water from the Loire up to the garden parterres laid out to one side of the château. He was assisting the architect-engineer Fra Giocondo, who had translated Frontinus's essay on the ancient aqueducts of Rome, De aquis urbae Romanae. After Charles VIII's death in 1498, both men continued to be employed by Louis XII at Blois, whence he had removed the court.