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Simone del Pollaiolo (1457 – 1508) is a well known Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca (The Chronicle).

Pollaiolo was born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he had two famous brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo (keeps a hen-house, pollaio in Italian).

Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca.






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Simone del Pollaiolo (1457 – 1508) is a well known Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca (The Chronicle).

Pollaiolo was born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he had two famous brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo (keeps a hen-house, pollaio in Italian).

Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca. The reason for such nickname has much to do with his art and is explained by Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
. Simone del Pollaiolo, in order to learn more of the architectural art, marched to Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 around 1470 to observe the old ruins. On his return to Florence he made very meticulous and reasoned stories and descriptions of his observations, which were described like a chronicle.

Pollaiolo was responsible for the completion of Strozzi Palace
Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy.The Palace was begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder, a rival of the Medici who had returned to the city in November 1466 and desired the most magnificent palace to assert his family's continued prominence and, perhaps more importantly a political statement of his...
 in 1504. He died in Florence in 1508.