Giuseppe Mengoni (23 November 1829 – 30 December 1877) was an Italian architect. He designed the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II () is Italy's oldest active shopping gallery and a major landmark of Milan in Italy. Housed within a four-story double arcade in the centre of town, the ''Galleria'' is named after Victor Emmanuel II, the first ki ...
in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
. He also designed the
Palazzo di Residenza of Bologna Saving Bank (
Carisbo). He died by accident, falling off the roof of the gallery he had built.
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Architects from Bologna
Architects from Milan
19th-century Italian architects
1829 births
1877 deaths
Accidental deaths from falls