Gaspare Nadi

[1] At the age of fifteen Nadi moved to Faenza in the following of the jurist Graziolo Accarisi, but two years later he returned to Bologna.

Senzabarba refused to maintain him there and so within months he had moved into the house of Gaspare di Guido, where he was taught to read and write under a private instructor.

[1] Nadi's first work was the installation of the bell of the Palazzo d'Accursio (with the engineer Aristotele Fioravanti), completed, he proudly noted in his diary, on 16 May 1436.

In July he joined the master builder Cristoforo Zani, and worked on the church of San Michele in Bosco.

He worked on the reliquary (arca) of the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, construction on which was never complete owing to the destruction wrought by the earthquake of 1570.

Nadi was buried "with the great honour of the company of masons" (con grande onore de la conpagnia di moraduri) in the church of San Vitale in the place of his birth.