Vatican from 1514. In a letter to Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1513, Giocondo referred to himself "an old man". On Donato Bramante's death he was made part of a team with Raphael and Giuliano da Sangallo to superintend the erection of the new St. Peter's Basilica. The work included strengthening the foundations. He died in 1515, while involved with this project. Published works In 1498 Giocondo published Pliny's Epistles in Bologna. He published another edition with Aldus Manutius's press (1508), which he dedicated to King Louis XII. Between 1506 and 1508 Giocondo wrote four dissertations on the waters and waterways of Venice. Giocondo was among the first to produce a corrected edition of De architectura by the classical Roman writer Vitruvius, a treatise that had a major influence on the development of Renaissance architecture. It was an illustrated edition, printed in Venice in 1511, and dedicated to Pope Julius II. Giocondo also published the works of Julius Obsequens, Aurelius Victor, and Cato the Elder's De re rustica. He also edited Julius Caesar's Commentaries and made the first drawing of Caesar's bridge across the Rhine. In addition to his classical and mathematical knowledge, he was a master of scholastic theology. Giocondo is sometimes identified as the author of the widely quoted inspirational letter, A Letter to the Most Illustrious the Contessina Allagia degli Aldobrandeschi, Written Christmas Eve Anno Domini 1513. The British Museum, however, stated in 1970 that the authorship of the letter was uncertain. American composer Edwina Florence Wills used the text of the letter in her composition “Radiance and Glory” for voice, violin, cello, and piano. References Bibliography Miron Mislin: Die überbaute Brücke: Pont Notre Dame. Baugestalt und Sozialstruktur, Haag + Herchen Verlag, Frankfurt, 1982, Foreword: Julius Posener, Miron Mislin: The Planning and Building Process of two Paris Bridges in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, in: Proceedings of the Second International Congress on Construction History, Vol.2, Cambridge, 2006, p. 2223 - 2239 Arnold Nesselrath, 'A Little Gift from an Old Friend: Dürer's Drawings by Fra Giocondo', Print Quarterly, XVIII, 2011, 248–48. Maria Michailova. Bridges of Ancient Rome: Drawings in the Hermitage ascribed to Fra Giocondo, in The Art Bulletin. — New York, 1970. — P.250—264. External links 1430s births 1510s deaths Writers from Verona 16th-century Italian architects Italian classical scholars Italian Dominicans Italian Friars Minor 15th-century Italian Christian monks 16th-century Italian writers Roman Catholic friars 15th-century Italian