Dionisio Nencioni di Bartolomeo (1559, Florence - 1638, Naples) was an Italian architect, mainly active in

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, to which he moved in 1584. He worked on the Hieronymite church from 1587 until his death, in collaboration with

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. In 1607 he took part in the competition to design the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius, alongside other architects working in Naples such as Francesco Grimaldi, Giovan Battista Cavagna, Giulio Cesare Fontana,

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, Giovanni Cola di Franco and Ceccardo Bernucci, but his design did not win. In 1612 he worked on the Gesù e Maria Complex and from 1604 to 1632 as one of the architects of San Giuseppe dei Ruffi. In 1631 he made some assessments of the work already done at

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. He spent his final years finishing working on the Gerolamini church (even joining the

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himself in 1637), which was only completed in 1639. Gaetana Cantone, ''Napoli barocca'', Napoli, Laterza Editore, 2002, , SBN IT\ICCU\NAP\0307298.

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