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Gianello della Torre (1500 – 13 June 1585), known in Spain as Juanelo Turriano, was the resident court inventor for UsefulNotes/CharlesV and UsefulNotes/PhilipII. A true Italian polymath of UsefulNotes/Renaissance, he was in many ways Spain's answer to France's patronage of UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, although Gianello never managed to come even close to him in pop culture relevance. Like Leonardo, however, he also designed flying machines, experimental weapons and some interesting automatons.
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Gianello della Torre (1500 – 13 June 1585), known in Spain as Juanelo Turriano, was the resident court inventor for UsefulNotes/CharlesV and UsefulNotes/PhilipII. A true Italian polymath ofUsefulNotes/Renaissance, UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance, he was in many ways Spain's answer to France's patronage of UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, although Gianello never managed to come even close to him in pop culture relevance. Like Leonardo, however, he also designed flying machines, experimental weapons and some interesting automatons.
Gianello della Torre (1500 – 13 June 1585), known in Spain as Juanelo Turriano, was the resident court inventor for UsefulNotes/CharlesV and UsefulNotes/PhilipII. A true Italian polymath of
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In Spanish folklore, however, Gianello has some relevance thanks to the legend of the ''Hombre de Palo'' (roughly "Wooden Man"), a primitive automaton supposedly build by Gianello to collect money for him, essentially a mechanical mendicant, as Gianello was constantly short of funds and, typically for a Spanish inventor, died in poverty and unrecognized. In any case, there are several versions of the legend, some more fantastical than others: some claim it was basically a clockwork {{Golem}} with true sentience who could bow down to generous donors and fight off thieves with a mace and a shield, while the more realistic-minded speculate it was just some kind of stationary machine who did funny things after putting money on it. In a related note, the Smithsonian Museum currently has a cute monk automaton which might have been built by Gianello after famous Franciscan monk Didacus of Alcalá.
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In Spanish folklore, however, Gianello has some relevance thanks to the legend of the ''Hombre de Palo'' (roughly "Wooden Man"), a primitive automaton supposedly build by Gianello to collect money for him, essentially a mechanical mendicant, as Gianello was constantly short of funds and, typically for a Spanish inventor, died in poverty and unrecognized. In any case, there are several versions of the legend, some more fantastical than others: some claim it was basically a clockwork ClockPunk {{Golem}} with true sentience who could bow down to generous donors and fight off thieves with a mace and a shield, while the more realistic-minded speculate it was just some kind of stationary machine who did funny things after putting money on it. In a related note, the Smithsonian Museum currently has a cute monk automaton which might have been built by Gianello after famous Franciscan monk Didacus of Alcalá.
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* Creator/FranciscoDeQuevedo mentions him in his novel ''El Buscón''.
* Ricardo Sánchez Candelas' historical novel ''Las Grullas del otoño volaron sobre el Tajo'' adapts Gianello's life.
* Baltasar Magro's ''El círculo de Juanelo''
* ''El ingeniero y el rey'' by José Vicente Pascual puts Gianello as an improvised detective in the times of Charles' death.
* Also in ''La llave maestra'' by Agustín Sánchez Vidal.
* Antonio Lázaro's ''Memorias de un Hombre de Palo'' also tells his story.
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* Creator/FranciscoDeQuevedo mentions him in his novel ''El Buscón''.
* Ricardo Sánchez Candelas' historical novel ''Las Grullas del otoño volaron sobre el Tajo'' adapts Gianello's life.
* Baltasar Magro's ''El círculo de Juanelo''
* ''El ingeniero y el rey'' by José Vicente Pascual puts Gianello as an improvised detective in the times of Charles' death.
* Also in ''La llave maestra'' by Agustín Sánchez Vidal.
* Antonio Lázaro's ''Memorias de un Hombre de Palo'' also tells his story.
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Gianello della Torre (1500 – 13 June 1585), known in Spain as Juanelo Turriano, was the resident court inventor for UsefulNotes/CharlesV and UsefulNotes/PhilipII. A true Italian polymath of UsefulNotes/Renaissance, he was in many ways Spain's answer to France's patronage of UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, although Gianello never managed to come even close to him in pop culture relevance. Like Leonardo, however, he also designed flying machines, experimental weapons and some interesting automatons.
Gianello's early life remains quite unknown, as he only became famous after Charles recruited him, but it is known he was born in the Duchy of Milan and then naturalized as a Spaniard. His first invention was a couple of highly advanced astronomical clocks, but they were soon overshadowed by a much more prodigious device, the ''Artificio de Juanelo'', a self-powered system that lifted water from the Tagus river to a height of almost 100 meters in order to supply the city of Toledo. Even modern engineers aren't sure of how did it work, as we don't have the whole thing -- it remained functional for almost a century until it broke down, and by this point rebuilding it was considered AwesomeButImpractical and thus abandoned. Gianello was apparently a colleague to UsefulNotes/BlascoDeGaray, who built functional paddle-wheelers that were equally abandoned because people at the time believed they would never catch up.
In Spanish folklore, however, Gianello has some relevance thanks to the legend of the ''Hombre de Palo'' (roughly "Wooden Man"), a primitive automaton supposedly build by Gianello to collect money for him, essentially a mechanical mendicant, as Gianello was constantly short of funds and, typically for a Spanish inventor, died in poverty and unrecognized. In any case, there are several versions of the legend, some more fantastical than others: some claim it was basically a clockwork {{Golem}} with true sentience who could bow down to generous donors and fight off thieves with a mace and a shield, while the more realistic-minded speculate it was just some kind of stationary machine who did funny things after putting money on it. In a related note, the Smithsonian Museum currently has a cute monk automaton which might have been built by Gianello after famous Franciscan monk Didacus of Alcalá.
Gianello would be succeeded by UsefulNotes/JeronimoDeAyanz, another Spanish multi-inventor that did some wonderful things before being forgotten by history.
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Gianello's early life remains quite unknown, as he only became famous after Charles recruited him, but it is known he was born in the Duchy of Milan and then naturalized as a Spaniard. His first invention was a couple of highly advanced astronomical clocks, but they were soon overshadowed by a much more prodigious device, the ''Artificio de Juanelo'', a self-powered system that lifted water from the Tagus river to a height of almost 100 meters in order to supply the city of Toledo. Even modern engineers aren't sure of how did it work, as we don't have the whole thing -- it remained functional for almost a century until it broke down, and by this point rebuilding it was considered AwesomeButImpractical and thus abandoned. Gianello was apparently a colleague to UsefulNotes/BlascoDeGaray, who built functional paddle-wheelers that were equally abandoned because people at the time believed they would never catch up.
In Spanish folklore, however, Gianello has some relevance thanks to the legend of the ''Hombre de Palo'' (roughly "Wooden Man"), a primitive automaton supposedly build by Gianello to collect money for him, essentially a mechanical mendicant, as Gianello was constantly short of funds and, typically for a Spanish inventor, died in poverty and unrecognized. In any case, there are several versions of the legend, some more fantastical than others: some claim it was basically a clockwork {{Golem}} with true sentience who could bow down to generous donors and fight off thieves with a mace and a shield, while the more realistic-minded speculate it was just some kind of stationary machine who did funny things after putting money on it. In a related note, the Smithsonian Museum currently has a cute monk automaton which might have been built by Gianello after famous Franciscan monk Didacus of Alcalá.
Gianello would be succeeded by UsefulNotes/JeronimoDeAyanz, another Spanish multi-inventor that did some wonderful things before being forgotten by history.
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