FRANCESO GALLI BIBIENA born at Bologna, was the second son of Giovanni Maria. He studied under Parsinelli and Cignani, worked at Piacenza, Parma, Rome, and then became ducal architect at Mantua. After a stay in Genoa and Naples he was caPed to Vienna, where he built a large theatre. He was archi tect of the great theatre at Nancy, of the Teatro Filarmonico at Verona, which Milizia calls the finest theatre in Italy, of the Teatro Alibert in Rome. In 1726 he returned to Bologna and was made one of the directors of the Academia Clementina.