Antonio Diedo

Born to parents from the Venetian patrician families of Diedo and Priuli, as a young man he entered the seminary in Padua.

Antonio wrote a number of treatises on architecture, including a monograph on Giovanni Battista Novello;[1] a Speech on Architecture read in 1805 at the Accademia Veneta dei Filareti; also a Dissertation about the imitation of the antique in architecture given to the same academy; and article in the Giornale di Padova about the work of Jacopo Querenghi, titled Sul bello di proporzione in architettura.

He became secretary and professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.

In 1838, he was knighted to the Order of the Iron Crown by the Austrian emperor Ferdinand I.

Among his designs were:[2] Church of San Donato di Piave