Sicily - famous people

Were born in Palermo's Province

Alia	Orestano Francesco (1873-1945) Professor at Palermo. L'originalità di Kant - Nuovi Principi.	Phylosopher
Bagheria	Bagnera Francesco (1865-1927)	Mathematician
Bagheria	Buttitta Ignazio (1899-??)	Writer and dialect's poet
Bagheria	Scianna Ferdinando (1943 - )	Reporter
Bagheria	Guttuso Renato (1912-1993) He was a member of *Corrente: then a protagonistof Italian realismo. Fuga dall'Etna - I funerali di Togliatti - La Vucciria.*	Painter
Bagheria	Scaduto Francesco (1858-1942) Church's law student, discipline which he for first in Italy gave autonomous configuration from the other branches of the Law.	Jurist
Balestrate	Avola Filippo (1815-1887)	Hoy Bible's researcher
Borgetto	Marino Salomone Salvatore (1847-1916)	Folclorist
Carini	Calipso Pasquale (1872-1934)	Mathematician
Castelbuono	Palumbo Minà Francesco (1814-1899)	Naturalist
Castronuovo di Sicilia	Pepi Antonino (1746-1811)	Writer
Cerda	La Mantia Vito (1822-1904)	Jurist
Ciminna	Amato Paolo (1633-1714)	Architect
Collesano	Peri Illuminato (1925-....) University teacher of Sicilian Medieval history, author of many books - "Studi e problemi di storia siciliana" - "La Sicilia dopo il Vespro" - "Michele Amari". and others.	Writer
Corleone	Vasi Giuseppe (1710-1782)	Engraver
Corleone	Bentivegna Francesco (1820-1856)	Patriot
Ganci	Salerno Giuseppe (1588-1630)	Painter
Ganci	Vanzano Gaspare " Lo zoppo di Ganci "(1550-1630)	Painter
Geraci Siculo	Albanese Giacomo (1890-1947) Teacher at a Catania, Palermo, Pisa and S. Paolo of Brasile, he did important researches over geometry's algebra.	Mathematician
Isnello	*Impelliteri Vincenzo (1905-1991) New York City's former major from 1950 until 1956.	Political man
Mazzarino	Artale Giuseppe (1628-1679) Soldier of fortune and umanista's poet. He wrote the Encicopledia poetica - Cordimarte.	Writer
Mezzojuso	Buccola Gabriele (1854-1885)	Medical
Monreale	Leto Antonino (1844-1913)	Painter
Monreale	Veneziano Antonio (1543-1593)	Poet
Monreale	Miceli Filippo (1734-1781)	Painter
Monreale	Novelli Pietro known as il Monrealese (1603-1647) He was influenced by *Van Dyck* e *Caravaggio. "Miracolo di S. Filippo"* at the Gesù of Palermo Church. He cured the fotification's works.	Painter Architect
Palazzo Adriano	Crispi Giuseppe (1781-1859)	Grecista
Piana degli Albanesi	Barbato Nicola (1856-1922)	Political man
Piana degli Albanesi	Camarda Demetrio (1821-1882)	Glottologist
Polizzi Generosa	Borghese Giuseppe Antonio (1882-1952) Literarture's critic. Wrote: Storia della critica romantica in Italia - Rubè.	Writer
Termini Imerese	Balsamo Paolo (1764-1816)	Economist
Termini Imerese	Mulè Giuseppe (1885-1954)	Composer
Termini Imerese	Stesicoro ( VII-VI sec. a.C.) One of wthe men that gave, with their operas, pride to Sicily. His name was Tisia. He was born at Imera (the ancient Termini Imerese). He died at Catania and the Imeri's people built him a statue raffigurating him with a book in his hand.	Poet
Termini Imerese	Ugdulena Gregorio (1815-1872)	Patriot
Trabia	La Masa Giuseppe (1819-1881) Leader of the Palermitan's insurrection of 1848/12/1 and organized the Sicilian's volounteers (picciotti) during the 1000 expedition.	Patriot

* Mr. John J. Forti kindly gave us this informations. - St. Louis MO - USA

Were born in Catania's Province

Bronte	Spedalieri Nicola (1740-1795)	Phylosopher
Acireale	Vigo Lionardo (1799-1879)	Writer
Caltagirone	Innocenzo da Caltagirone (sec. XVI)	Blessed
Caltagirone	Sturzo Luigi (1871-1959) He founded (1919), the Partito popolare italiano, was the secretary of it 'till 1923. Exiliated from 1924 at London and in States. He wrote L'Italia e il fascismo - L'Italia e l'ordine internazionale.	Priest and political
Caltagirone	Bongiovanni Giacomo (sec. XVIII)	Potter
Caltagirone	Bongiovanni Giuseppe (sec. XVIII)	Potter
Giarre	Romeo Rosario (1924-....)	Historician
Giarre	Sciacca Michele (1908-1975) Spiritualist chatolic phylosopher: Il problema di Dio e della religione nella filosofia attuale.	Phylosopher
Iònia (former town made up by Giarre and Riposto from 1942 until 1945)	Battiato Franco (1945-....) "L' Era del Cinghiale Bianco" - " La voce del padrone" ecc. During September '94, commisioned by the Sicilian Region, on the 8th Century birthdate of Federico II o Svevia, the opera: "Il Cavaliere dell" intelletto". was represented inside Palermo's Cathedral.	Musicist e Singer
Linguaglossa	Messina Francesco (1900-1993) "Realista" - "Pugilista" - "Nuotatore sulla spiaggia".	Sculptor
Motta Sant'Anastasia	Di Stefano Giuseppe (1921-....)	Tenor
Militello in Val di Catania	Corazza Filippo (1708-1763)	Jurisconsult
Mineo	Maura Paolo (1638-1711)	Dialect poet
Mineo	Capuana Luigi (1839-1915) Between the highest verismo's exponents. On the novels and romances, ambiented in Sicily, applied the impersonal representaion. Giacinta - Il Marchese di Roccaverdina. He also wrote dramas, a children's novel, Scarpiddu and essays.	Novelist
Mineo	Bonaviri Giuseppe (1924-??) “Martedina”.	Writer
Nicolosi	Gemmellaro Mario (1773-1839)	Botanical
Paterno'	Nicolosi Giovan Battista (1610-1670)	Geographer
Vizzini	Verga Giovanni (1840-1922) The highest exponent of *verismo. He passed throught a late-dramatical phase with the romances: Una peccatrice - Eva - Storia di una Capinera - Eros. The turn to verismo* began with the Sicilian's ambientation with works like Nedda and continued with *Vita dei Campi. With the novel Malavoglia* he started the loser cycle. 2° novel was *Mastro don Gesualdo. That's the Nucleus of the great Verga's narrative. An examination of the Sicilian's world conducted with the "impersonality" and togheter with a deep mercy for the historical destiny of the poor, expressed with a sober writing and an intense "talking" which introduces inside the language and the rhytms of the dialect.Other works: Le Novelle -* Per le vie - Arce. I drammi: Cavalleria Rusticana - In portineria - Dal tuo al mio.	Writer
Zafferana Etnea	Sciuti Giuseppe (1834-1911)	Painter

Were born in Messina's Province

Alì	D’arrigo Stefano (1919-??) “Codice siciliano”.	Writer
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto	Bolognara Giuseppina (1835-18??) Durning the 1860 insurrection against the Borbonis at Catania, he did two heroism actions, she was decorated with a silver medal.	Patriot Heroin
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto	Cattafi Bartolo (1922-1979) - “L’osso e l’anima”.	Writer
Capizzi	Mancuso Fuoco Antonino (1921-1996) Autodidact. Its paintings take shapes and colors from the people and the natural environment of his childhood. Saloni della Caravella d' oro, Genova, 1975 - Galleria La Feluca, Roma, 1975 - Palais de la Musique, Strasburgo, 1975-766 - Salone Arthaud, Grenoble, 1976 - Foyles Art Gallery, Londra, 1976.	Painter
Castroreale	Buzzi Antonino (1852-1921)	Botanical
Letojanni	Durante Francesco (1884-1934)	Surgeon
Milazzo	Rizzo Luigi (1887-1951) Vassel's lieutenant. During the first WW he sunk the Osterreich's battleships **Wien e Szent Istvan**.	War Hero 2 gold medal
Milazzo	Focicle (VI sec. a.C.)	Elegy's Poet
Milazzo	Leone II (682-685)	Pope
Milazzo	Coffarelli Francesco (?-1584)	Mathematician
Milazzo	Piaggia Giuseppe (1821 - 1871) "The Milazzo's insurrection during the 1860's Italian Indipendence war"	Writer
Milazzo	Impallomeni Giovan Battista (1846-1907)	Jurist
Milazzo	Bertè Francesco (1845-1895)	Anthropologist
Mirto	Cupani Francesco (1657-1719)	Botanical
Mistretta	Aversa Tommaso (1623-1663)	Thetre's writer
Mistretta	Cocchiara Giuseppe (1904-1965)	Historical Folclore
Mistretta	Pagliaro Antonio (1898-1973) His method found theorical expression by mouving from the knowledge character of the language's experience. "Il segno vivente" - "Le funzioni del linguaggio".	Man of letters
Naso	Raffaele Giovanni (1804-1882)	Patriot
Oliveri	Ziino Giuseppe (1841-1915)	Hygienist
Patti	Accordino Giuseppe (1777-1830)	Phylospher
Patti	Joppolo Beniamino (1906-1965) - “L’Invito”.	Writer
S. Agata di Militello	Consolo Vincenzo (1933-2012) “Catarsi” - "Il Sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio" - “Lumeria”.	Writer
Sant'Angelo di Brolo	Basile Luigi (1820-1889)	Patriot
Taormina	Di Giovanni Giovanni (1699-1753)	Erudito
Taormina	Paladini Francesco Perroni Pride patriot, one of the most courageus member of the 4 April 1860 Palermo's insurrection.	Patriot
Tripi	Todaro Francesco (1839-1918)	Physiologic

Were born in Siracusa's Province

Lentini	Jacopo da Lentini (sec. XIII)	Sicilian's school Poet
Lentini	* Gorgia (V. sec) Disciple of Empedocle, famous between the other, for his affirmation, "The word is not truth, it is only magic, it's the art of persuading".	Orator
Lentini	Addamo Sebastiano (1925-??)	Political man
Pachino	Brancati Vitaliano (1907-1954) Satirical, until grotesque. Between his target the Sicilian's and Italian's myths of the "heroism". Don Giovanni in Sicilia - Il bell'Antonio - Paolo il caldo.	Novelist
Noto	Aurispa Giovanni (1376-1459) He discovered notables codes: of *Iliade - Antologia palatina*.	Humanist
Noto	Barberi Giovanni Luca (1452?-1520) Author of: *I Capibrevi* - (All the notarial actions, the registers of the noble's titles and of the feuds granted from Ferdinando the Catholic).	Historical
Noto	Avolio Corrado (1843-1905) - “Canti popolari di Noto”.	Musician
Noto	Littara Vincenzo (1550-1602) “*DEREBUS NETINIS*”	Writer
Noto	Coffa Marianina (1841-1878)	Poetessa
Melilli	Costanzo Giuseppe Aurelio (1843-1913) He isn't forgot for his verse's volume, "Gli eroi della soffitta".	Poet

* Mr. Roberto Favara kindly gave us this information. (Lentini - Siracusa - Italy).

Were born in Agrigento's Province

Aragona	Barbiera Attilio (1868-1924)	Comic writer
Casteltermini	De Cosmi Giovanni Agostino (1726-1810)	Pedagogist
Cattolica Eraclea	Monsignor Giuseppe Gioieni (1717-1798)	Maecenas
Cianciana	Di Giovanni Gaetano (1831-1912)	Historical
Cianciana	Di Giovanni Alessio (1872-1946)	Poet
Favara	Mendola Antonino (1827-1908)	Ampelografo
Licata	Linales Vincenzo (1802-1847)	Writer
Montevago	Tumminello Antonino (1841 - 1870) "Scritti filosofici - La filosofia Italiana".	Philosopher
Naro	Messina Giuseppe (1877-1946)	Jurist
Porto Empedocle	Camilleri Andrea (1921-....) ll corso delle cose - Il ladro di merendine - La concessione del telefono - Un mese con Montalbano, and others....	Writer and director
Racalmuto	D'Asaro Pietro (1591-1647)	Painter
Racalmuto	Sciascia Leonardo (1921-1989) With great lucidity and police rythms he denounced the sores of Italian's and Sicilian's societies. "Le parrocchie di Rogalpetra" - "Il giorno della civetta" - "Todo modo" - "Candido ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia".............	Writer
Ribera	Crispi Francesco (1818-1901) A man with Mazzini's ideas. Member of the Sicilian's insurrection of 1848 and 1860, after having prepared the Mille's expedition was the political mind of the "dictature" of Garibaldi in Southern Italy.Council's President, showed authoritarian and nationalist tendencies; represse l'irredentismo e il movimento socilalista, promoter of the triplex alliance and of the colonial expansion in Ethiopia. He left the power after the defeat of Adua.	Political man
Sambuca di Sicilia	Navarro della Battaglia Emanuele (1838-1919)	Writer
Sambuca di Sicilia	Giovanni Becchina - "Gianbecchina " - (1909-2001) Tireless artist with the innate instinct to paint the Sicilian country civilta'. In the years 30 lavoro's with Guttuso and the Four Group. With his pictures sollevo' social problems, documented the country struggles for the earth. In 1997 it gave its works to its City.	Painter
Sambuca di Sicilia	Amorelli Giuseppe (1850-1930)	Poet
S.Biagio Platani	Tirrito Fedele (1717-1801)	Painter
Sciacca	Barbagallo Corrado (1887-1952) Famous his: Storia Universale.	Historical
Sciacca	Amadei Cataldo (1629-1695)	Musician
Sciacca	Fazello Tommaso (1498-1570)	Historical
Sciacca	Blasco Michele (1628-1685)	Painter
Sciacca	Rossi Mariano (1731-1807)	Painter

Were born in Enna's Province

Aidone	Minolfi Filippo (1806-1879)	Economist
Aidone	Cordova Filippo (1811-1868) He helped Cavour during the unification of Italy.	Political man
Agira	Diodoro Siculo (I sec. a.C.)	Historical
Agira	Giusti Giuseppe Sinopoli (1870-1921)	Writer
Assoro	Pantano Edoardo (1842-1932)	Political man
Nicosia	Li Volsi Giovan Battista (sec.XVII)	Sculptor
Nicosia	Testa Francesco (1704-1773) “Capitula Regni Siciliae”.	Narrator
Piazza Armerina	Cascino Antonino (1863-1917) Commanding his Avellino's brigade he waved the Italian flag over Gorizia.	Gold medal General
Recalbuto	Alaimo Marcantonio (1590-1662)	Medical
Regalbuto	Ingrassia Filippo (1510-1580)	Medical
Valguarnera Caropepe	Lanza Francesco (1897-1933)	Poet

Were born in Ragusa's Province

Chiaramonte Gulfi	Guastalla Serafino Amabile (1819-1899)	Demopsychologist
Modica	Quasimodo Salvatore (1901-1968) Premio Nobel 1959 From the closed modules of ermetismo, he arrived to some more articulated rythms, with civil oratory tracts. "Ed è subito sera" - "Giorno dopo giorno" - "Dare e avere".	Poet and writer
Modica	Campailla Tommaso (1668-1740)	Philosopher
Modica	Ciaceri Emanuele (1869-1944) Accademic of the Lincei. Storia dell'antica Sicilia - Storia della Magna-Grecia.	Historical
Modica	Floridia Pietro (1860-1932) “Maruzza”	Historical
Comiso	Lo Bianco Andrea Giovanni detto: *il Comiso* His great paints are inside some Palermo's Churches.	Painter
Comiso	Bofalino Gesualdo (1920-1966) “Dicerie dell’autore”.	Novelist

Were born in Caltanissetta's Province

Delia	Russo Luigi (1892-1961) Historician, of a vivid polemic vein. Giovanni Verga . Macchiavelli - Ritratti e disegni storici.	Literary critic.
Mazzarino	Artale Giuseppe (1628-1679)	Poet
Mussumeli	Giudici Paolo Emiliani (1812-1872)	Man of letters
Sutera	Salomone Francesco ( ? )	One of the partecipants of the Barletta's defiance

Were born in Trapani's Province

Alcamo	Cielo D'Alcamo (sec. XIII) Author of the song: Rosa fresca aulentissima...., which is one of the oldest documents of the Italian Literature.	Poet
Alcamo	Bagolino Sebastiano (1560-1604)	Humanist
Calatafimi	Nocito Pietro (1841-1904)	Jiurist
Castelvetrano	Amato Domenico (1839-1897)	Pysician
Castelvetrano	Pantaleo Giovanni (1832-1879)	Priest of the Mille
Castelvetrano	Gentile Giovanni (1875-1944) After having collaborated with B. Croce, he broke with him. In 1923 become a meber of Fascist Party, minister of instruction started a great school's reform.He wrote: La riforma della dialettica hegeliana - teoria generale dello spirito come atto puro - Sistema di logica come teoria del conoscere.	Phylospher
Marsala	Damiani Abele (1835-1905)	Politic e Patriot
Marsala	Scurti Camoresi Sebastiano (1852-1912)	Sociologist
Mazara del Vallo	Consagra Pietro (1920-...) Astract tendence: I colloqui -(series).	Sculptor
Salemi	Aguirre Francesco (1682-1753)	Canonist
Salemi	Corleo Simone (1823-1891)	Phylospher
Salemi	Favara Alberto (1863-1923)	Phylospher
Santa Ninfa	Di Stefano Giovanni (1856-1918)	Geologist
Vita	Di Stefano Antonino (1875-1964)	Historical

A. Grifasi - 23/11/97

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