Ranieri Spadaccini

Ranieri Spadaccini was an Italian architectural draughtsman and student of Ignazio Pellegrini, active in Tuscany during the 1750s and 1760s. Little is known of his life beyond his surviving work, but his Pianta della Città di Pisa (1760) reveals a highly trained hand and a command of both architectural and topographical drafting conventions. His designation of himself as “Scolare del Sig.r Mag.g.re Conte Pellegrini” suggests formal study under Pellegrini, possibly within a Florentine or Pisan academic context.

Spadaccini’s work embodies the didactic manuscript tradition of 18th-century architectural education, in which students produced large, detailed plans of cities and monuments to demonstrate technical mastery and comprehension of urban form. The Pisa plan remains the only documented example of his work and a rare testament to the intersection of cartography, architecture, and Enlightenment pedagogy in mid-18th-century Tuscany.