ALGHISI, Galeazzo, an eminent Italian architect, of the
latter end of the sixteenth century. He was a native of Carpi, in Modena, and held the office of architect to the Duke of Ferrara, for whom he designed a magnificent palace. His work, Della Fortificazione, on military architecture, published at Venice in 1570, was the best architectural production that had then appeared.—Tiraboschi, Storia.