Historical Figures of Salerno

His portraits, scenes of everyday life, still lifes, and landscapes make Clemente Tafuri a landmark of Neapolitan realism. His energetic…

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

Trotula de Ruggiero, a woman physician, was magistra of the Salerno Medical School and author of texts on gynecology and…

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 initiated the transformation of the city with the work on the…

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

Masuccio Salernitano, the greatest novelist of the 15th century, recounts his city in the Novellino, presenting places that are still…

Robert Guiscard, the astute, conquered Salerno and made it his capital, to go on to conquer the whole of the…

Guaimarius IV brought Salerno in the 11th century to dominate a principality that covered the entire peninsular Mezzogiorno.

The Wizard Barliarius is a historical figure, probably an alchemist, about whom many legends are told, including the miraculous overnight…

Arechi II, a Lombard prince, is the second founder of the city of Salerno. In the 8th century Salerno, thanks…

Ippolito da Pastina is Salerno’s Masaniello, a revolutionary who tried to free the city from Spanish oppression.

Initially an intimist painter, devoted to small still lifes, then to collage and suggestions of American pop-art until his heyday…

Giovanni Amendola is one of the most distinguished figures of early antifascism, the one who opposed Mussolini’s seizure of power….

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

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

From Bishop Alfano I to the physician Trotula de Ruggiero, there are many figures who have brought prestige to the…

An exceptional woman, Princess Sichelgaita, Lombard and wife of the Norman Robert Guiscard. Cultured, of great personality, also capable of…

The monument to Giovanni Nicotera is in the center of the Villa Comunale, commemorating the Salerno-elected parliamentarian and several times…

Marquis Ferdinand Ruggi of Aragon and Abbot Conforti are the Salerno protagonists of the ephemeral and glorious epic of the…

Matteo Silvatico, a doctor from Salerno, author of important treatises on medicinal herbs, was physician to Robert of Anjou and…

Avallone is the Salerno painter of reference for the first half of the twentieth century: the great decorative cycles he…

Giovanni da Procida, a minister of Frederick II and later his sons, expanded the port of Salerno and started the…