Amintore Galli
Music critic, teacher and music event organizer Amintore Galli was born in Talamello, Miniera di Perticara, in 1845. After beginning the study of music with his uncle, a band director, he enrolled in ...
Angelo Mariani
Born in Ravenna on October 12th 1821, Angelo Mariani is considered one of the greatest Italian orchestra conductors of all time. He was as student of Gioacchino Rossini as well as of Father ...
Cagliostro
Shrouded in legend and mystery, Giuseppe Balsamo, better known as Count di Cagliostro, was an adventurer, Freemason and alchemist who traveled between the courts of Europe in the 18th ...
Fernando Gualtieri
Fernando Gualtieri was born on December 1st 1919 in Longlaville in eastern France, a destination of emigration for many Italian families who went to work in the mines. His father, from ...
Girolamo Genga
Born in Urbino in 1476, Girolamo Genga was one of the most successful painters of the period spanning the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th centuries. His name is ...
Martino Manzi
Martino Manzi, known by the nickname “Martignone”, was born in Casalecchio di Sopra, near Perticara, on February 15th 1836. He began to give signs of his restless, ...
Matteo da Bascio
Matteo da Bascio was the founder of the third and most recent Franciscan order, recognized in 1528 as a community of Friars Minor of the Eremitical Life, later called the Franciscan Order of ...
Nicola Gambetti
Nicola Gambetti was the most feared and revered figure in 19th-century Montefeltro; he had all the gifts and virtues of the healer and doctor, the magician and veterinarian, the chemist ...
Father Agostino da Montefeltro
Father Agostino da Montefeltro, originally Luigi Vicini, was born in Sant’Agata on March 1st 1839. He was a preacher and benefactor during the Risorgimento and came to renown for his ...
Father Francesco Orazio Olivieri
Francesco Orazio Olivieri was born in Pennabilli in 1680 of a noble family. At the age of twenty he embraced the Franciscan rule and entered into the convent of the Capuchin Friars of Pietrarubbia. ...
Father Marella
Don Olinto Giuseppe Marella, known as Father Marella, is famous as “the good father” who saved thousands of young children from poverty, hunger and ignorance. He was born in Pellestrina ...
Pietro Franciosi
Pietro Franciosi, an exponent of reformist socialism, was an historian and a great philanthropist who was most widely known for his modern policies oriented towards assisting emigrants. He was ...
San Leo
St. Leo was the founder of the city of the same name, which would later name him its patron. Towards the end of the 3rd century the humble stone-cutter fled Dalmatia to escape ...
Sebastiano Venturi
Sebastiano Venturi, born and currently residing in Pennabilli, is a medical doctor for the Servizio d’Igiene USL N. 1 (Local Health Unit) of the Marches. He has done research on ...
Tonino Guerra
Antonio Guerra, also called “Tonino”, is not only a poet, writer and painter, but also a famous screenwriter, who was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna on March 16th 1920. ...
Uguccione della Faggiola
Born in 1250, Uguccione was a member of the noble house of the Della Faggiola, who at the time were the lords of Casteldelci and lived in one of the castles built during the Middle Ages in the ...


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