Agrippa, Camillo

Persons known by name

architect, engineer …
before 1535 – after 1595 (?)
came to Rome in 1535
maybe stood in contact with Sangallo and Michelangelo
in this context he proposed a method for the translocation of the Vatican obelisc – "Trattato di Camillo Agrippa milanese di trasportar la gvglia in sv la piazza di San Pietro" – printed in 1583, when Gregory XIII had asked architects and engineers for proposals: Agrippa suggested to transport the obelisc in an upright position ("Secondo questo progetto - Trattato di trasportar la guglia in su la piazza di S. Pietro, Roma 1583 - l'obelisco doveva essere spostato in posizione verticale, evitandosi così le operazioni di abbattimento e di successivo sollevamento." – DBI)
The engraver of the illustrations for his book «Trattato di scientia d'arme : con vn dialogo di filosofia» from 1553, printed by Blado, may have been Baldo Perogino who is also believed to have worked for Labacco's "Libro appartenente … all'architettura" (1552). The book seems to have demonstrated a new way of fighting (swordplay, fencing) that became very successful. In the attached Dialogo, Camillo talks with a certain "Annibale" who could have been Annibale Caro?
Agrippa would fit very well into Jacopo Strada's description of military men being members of the Accademia before or in 1553.
In addition, he wrote a book on navigation and the movement of the spheres (astronomy):
Chacon wrote after his death that he had also written books on.

climate: Dialogo di Camillo Agrippa, milanese: sopra la generatione de venti, baleni, tuoni, fulgori, fiumi, laghi, valli, & montagne.
navigation: Nuove inventioni di Camillo Agrippa Milanese. Sopra il modo di navigare (1595)
fortifications: «A. Chacon (Ciaconius), scrive che l'A. avrebbe composto, ma non pubblicato, alcuni dialoghi De muniendis arcibus et inexpugnabilibus adversus quorumcumque hostium impetum reddendis.» that was not published.