Vincenzo Scamozzi (2 September 1548 – 7 August 1616) was an
Italian architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in
Vicenza and
Republic of Venice area in the second half of the 16th century. He was perhaps the most important figure there between
Andrea Palladio, whose unfinished projects he inherited at Palladio's death in 1580, and
Baldassarre Longhena, Scamozzi's only pupil.