Francesco, an Italian architect, born at Bissone in 1599. He was much employed in the middle of the seventeenth century at Rome; but in his style he affected originality and richness, which corrupted the noble simplicity of the older schools, though his compositions are occasionally imposing. His principal works are the church of St Agnese in Piazza Navona, the church of San Carlo alle Fontane, the church of Collegio di Propaganda, and the restoration of San Giovanni in Laterano. He died by his own hand at Rome in 1667.