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  1. 1518-1580. Italian architect. His country
  2. houses (for example, Malcontenta, and the
  3. Villa Rotonda near Vicenza) were designed
  4. from 1540 for patrician families of the
  5. Venetian Republic. These buildings influenced
  6. Neo-Classical architecture, such as
  7. Washington's home at Mount Vernon, USA, the
  8. palace of Tsarskoe Selo in Russia, and Prior
  9. Park, England.
  10.