Cristofori’s entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that little is
known of his life and that his invention was not well known in his
lifetime
Google’s latest doodle celebrates the 360th birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the man widely credited with inventing the piano.
Cristofori was born in Padua on this day in 1655 in what was then the Republic of Venice.
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the instrument Cristofori
invented...