(San Giorgio Canavese TO - Torino 1786) architect, participated in the expedition to Palmyra (Syria) organised by Robert Wood, J. Dawkins and J. Bouverie. After some months of preparation, the expedition left in 1750, touched several islands in the Aegean Sea, Athens, Asia Minor, Palestine and Egypt. It went back to England in 1751. The journey is narrated in two volumes published by Wood in London in 1753-57 with etchings by Borra: The ruins of Palmyra otherwise Tedmor in the desart, end The ruins of Balbec otherwise Heliopolis in Coelosyria.
His sketchbooks are preserved at the Society for the promotion of Hellenic Studies in London.
He (or his brother) worked at Stowe with Lord Temple.
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The Ruins of Palmyra
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