Abstract.Nicola Zabaglia, master mason of the Fabbrica of St. Peter’s and inventor of many ingenious mechanical devices for restoration, was also the director of the “School of Practical Mechanics” for the education of young labourers. At a time when traditional operational experience was strongly rivalled by the coeval achievements in the theory of mechanics and its effect on building, the work of Zabaglia became an instrument of propaganda. Since empirical practice and the oral transmission of operational knowledge were called into question by the pressing progress of science as well as by new institutions, the works of Zabaglia and his talented students were not only an influential model of cohesion between architecture, building yard and applied mechanics, but also a melancholy epilogue of a practical tradition inexorably condemned to oblivion.

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Nicola Zabaglia 和罗马圣彼得法布里卡实用力学学院

摘要：尼古拉·扎巴格利亚（Nicola Zabaglia）是圣彼得法布里卡（Fabbrica）的泥瓦匠大师，许多精巧的修复机械装置的发明者，也是“实用力学学院”（School of Practical Mechanics）的负责人，负责教育青年劳动者。在传统的操作经验与力学理论及其对建筑的影响的同时代成就相媲美的时代，Zabaglia 的作品成为了一种宣传工具。由于科学的紧迫进步和新机构对经验实践和操作知识的口头传播提出了质疑，因此 Zabaglia 和他才华横溢的学生的作品不仅是建筑、建筑场和应用之间凝聚力的有影响力的模型。力学，同时也是一种不可避免地被遗忘的实用传统的忧郁尾声。