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Gaetano Moretti (Milan, 26 July 1860 - Milan, 30 Dicember 1938) was an Italian architet and academic.

He was the first dean of newly founded Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano in 1933

Biography
Giacomo Moretti was born in Milan from a cabinetmaker family. He graduated as a professor of architectural design at Brera Academy in 1883, under the direction ofLuca Beltrami.

Moretti was an eclectic architect, actively engaged both in Italy and abroad, with numerous interventions in Lima, Montevideo and Buenos Aires. He was a professor of architecture at Brera Academy and then at the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore (known ad Politecnico di Milano from 1937).

Between 1894 and 1897 together with his colleague Cesare Nava gave new shape in Romanesque-Lombard style to the facade of the Church of San Sepolcro in Milan. In 1903 he also remodelled the two bell towrs of the church.

Moretti projected of the Monumental cemetery of Chiavari, Genoa, hometown of his wife Candida Bagicalupo, whom he married in 1885.

Moretti built several private facilities, including the cemitery and the mausoleum of the company town of Crespi d'Adda in 1877 and the hydroelectric plant Taccani of Trezzo sull'Adda in 1906, commissioned by the entrepreneurs Cristoforo Benigno Crespi e Silvio Benigno Crespi.Together with Luca Beltrami Moretti was in charge of the restore of the St Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed in 1902 together with the Loggetta del Sansovino and part of the Marciana Library. Moretti supported the reconstruction "as it was". He adopted modern materials and techniques, like new reinforced concrete structure and cement mortar between the bricks, for static reasons and to reduce the weight while maintaining the external shape faithful to the original configuration.

In 1905, while working on the reconstruction of the St Mark Campanile in Venice, he designed the bell tower of Trezzo sull'Adda. Finished in October 1909, the construcion is very much like the one in Venice.

Moretti designed the headquarters of the branch of the Bank of Italy in Mantua, whose construction began 1914.

Moretti died in Milan on 30 December 1938 and, after the celebration of the funeral in the church of San Babila in Milan, he was buried in the family chapel in Chiavari, designed by him.