Invention of eyeglasses

Eyeglasses are first mentioned in work of Florentine Dominician friar Giordano da Pisa (1255–1311) in 1306.. He wrote that eyeglasses are invented 20 years before his writing and that he personaly meth inventor even he did not mention his name. 

Inventor is certainly from nothern Itlay, probably from Pisa.

First picture of eyeglasses is from 1352. on portrait of cardinal Hugg de Saint-Cher made by Thommaso de Modena. We can see here that cardinal is wearing the glasses.

First picture of glasses in the world

First eyeglasses was only for reading and not for farsight.