Historical Figures of Salerno

Portraits, scenes of everyday life, his still life and landscapes make Clement 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 Salernitana Medical School and author of texts of gynecology…

Ferrante di 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…

Arechi II, Prince Lombard, is the second founder of the city of Salerno. In the eighth century Salerno, thanks to…

Hippolito da Pastina is the Masaniello Salernitano, revolutionary who tried to free the city from the Spanish oppression.

Initially an intimate painter, voted for the small still life, then to the collage and suggestions of American pop-art until…

John Amendola is one of the most illustrious figures of the first anti-fascism, which opposed Mussolini’s power. He died as…

“I will always fall until the last day of my life, but dreaming of flying.” Alfonso Gatto is the most…

The mayor of Salerno for 14 years, Alfonso Menna was able to transform the city and revive it from the…

From Bishop Alfano I to the medical professional Trotula de Ruggiero, there are many people who have given birth to…

An exceptional woman, Princess Sichelgaita, Longobard and wife of Norman Roberto il Guiscardo. Colta, of great personality, able also to…

The monument to Giovanni Nicotera is at the center of the Villa Comunale, to remember the MP elected in Salerno…

The Marquis Ferdinando Ruggi d’Aragona and Abbot Conforti are the protagonists of the Salento ephemeral and glorious epoeia of the…

Matteo Silvatico, a doctor from Salerno, author of important treatises on medicinal herbs, was a doctor of Roberto d’Angiò and…

Avallone is the Venetian painter of reference for the first half of the twentieth century: in his extermination production have…

John from Procida, minister of Frederick II and then of his sons, expanded the port of Salerno and gave life…