Francesco Maria Preti

Francesco Maria Preti (1701-1774) was an Italian architect of the late-Baroque period.

He was born in Castelfranco Veneto near Treviso.

He trained in the University of Brescia, and returned to rebuild Santa Maria Assunta e San Liberale, the cathedral of Castelfranco.

A posthumous treatise on the Elements of Architecture was printed in Venice in 1780.

He designed a number of parochial churches nearby in Valla, Salvatronda, Caselle, and Tombolo.