Salvino D'Armati

[5] This register supposedly recorded Armati's epitaph as follows: Original : "Qui diace Salvino d'Armato degl'Armati di Fir., Inventor degl'occhiali.

In 1738, Domenico Maria Manni (1690–1788) of Florence published a book on the subject: Degli occhiali naso inventati da Salvino Armati, gentiluomo fiorentino.

[8][9] Again, despite the lack of evidence, the historian Pasquale Villari composed and had posted in Florence in 1855 a plaque honoring Salvino degli Armati as the inventor of eyeglasses.

Furthermore, between 1850 and 1900, a portrait head of Salvino degli Armati with a plaque[11] containing his epitaph was mounted in the chapel of the Orlandini de Beccuto family of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.

[12] In the twentieth century, efforts were made to expose as a hoax the claim that Salvino degli Armati invented eyeglasses: The Dizionario enciclopedico italiano (1955), vol.