Person
Pacello da Mercogliano
Italian designer of gardens and hydraulic engineer
Pacello da Mercogliano (c. 1455–1534) is a designer of gardens and hydraulic engineer, who is documented as working for Charles VIII at Amboise with the responsibility of bringing water from the Loire up to the garden parterres laid out to one side of the château.
He is assisting the architect-engineer Fra Giocondo, who had translated Frontinus's essay on the ancient aqueducts of Rome, De aquis urbae Romanae.
After Charles VIII's death in 1498, both men continue to be employed by Louis XII at Blois, whence he has removed the court.