Italian family of architects. Vincenzo della Greca (b Palermo; d Rome, before 1663) was living in Rome by 1615. He was appointed architect at the Castel Sant’Angelo and from 1631 to 1644 was surveyor of works at the papal establishments of Castel Sant’Angelo, Civitavecchia and Castelfranco. Under Urban VIII he collaborated with Francesco Paparelli on the church of S Caio (1631–7; destr. 1885), a Barberini foundation built on the site of an Early Christian church in the Via Pia. In 1647 his project for rebuilding S Giovanni in Laterano was rejected in favour of a design by Francesco Borromini. Between 1654 and 1660 Vincenzo worked at SS Domenico e Sisto, where he designed a grand staircase in two curved flights. Vincenzo’s son, Felice della Greca (b Rome, c. 1626; d Rome, 1677), wrote a treatise on architecture (MS. in Stockholm) that emphasized the role of the orders, entrances, staircases and adjacent gardens. In ...