Ferdinando Bonsignore

In Rome he worked with Nicola Giansimoni (1727-1800), a neoclassic architect.

In 1798, he returned to Turin and was nominated architect and designer to the court.

In 1813 he received a gold medal for his design of a Monument to Napoleon on the Moncenisio.

He helped design the church of Gran Madre di Dio in Turin.

[2] One of his pupils was Luigi Canina Among his designs that were never realized were for an armory in Turin, a Palazzo dei Conservatori, an octagonal temple dedicated to the marquis Niccolò Puccini, and an Egyptian-style tomb for Michelangelo.