Historical Figures of Salerno

Portraits, scenes of everyday life, his still life and landscapes make Clemente Tafuri a point of reference of Neapolitan realism….

Alfano I, doctor, bishop, politician, was a giant of southern culture and history in the 11th century. He was also…

Trotula de Ruggiero, a medical woman, was a master of the Schola Medica Salernitana and author of texts of gynecology…

Ferrante of Sanseverino was the last, splendid, prince of Salerno, lover of the arts, general of Charles V and then…

The first mayor of Salerno was Matteo Luciani, who started the transformation of the city with the works of the…

Antonio Genovesi taught in Naples Political Economy, the first chair of this discipline in the world. His text Business lessons…

Masuccio Salernitano, the most novelist of the fifteenth century, tells his city in the Novellino, presenting places still recognizable.

Roberto the Guiscardo, the abstained, conquered Salerno and made its capital, to pass to the conquest of all the Mezzogiorno…

Guaimario IV brought Salerno in the 11th century to dominate a principality covering the entire Peninsular Mezzogiorno.

The Mago Barliario is a historical character, probably an alchemist, on which there are many legends, including the miraculous construction…