Bible Encyclopedias
Fontana, Carlo

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a famous Italian architect, was born in 1638, and died at Rome in 1714. He wrote, II Tempio Vaticano, etc. (Rome, 1694, fol.): — Descrizione della Capella del Fonte Baptismale nella Basilica Vaticana (ibid. 1697). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:814; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. (B.P.)