Giovanni Attilio Arnolfini (Lucca, 15 October 1733 – 21 November 1791) was an Italian

hydrologist Hydrology () is the scientific study of the movement, distribution, and management of water on Earth and other planets, including the water cycle, water resources, and drainage basin sustainability. A practitioner of hydrology is called a hydro ...

and writer.Dizionario biografico universale
Volume 1, compiled by Gioacchino Maria Olivier-Poli, Naples (1824); page 96-97. He was born in

Lucca Città di Lucca ( ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its Province of Lucca, province has a population of 383,9 ...

, where he became senator. He was involved in canals and draining of bogs in Lucca and Tuscany. He was hired by Cardinal Ignazio Boncompagni-Ludovisi to complete some works in Lazio.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnolfini, Giovanni Attilio 1733 births 1791 deaths 18th-century Italian writers 18th-century Italian male writers Italian engineers People from Lucca