Were born at Siracusa

Archimede (287-212 a.C.) Mathematician.The greates ancient scientist.
Filolao (sec.V a.C.) Philosopher
Corace (sec. V a.C.) Orator
Sofrone (sec. V a.C.) Playwright
Iceta (sec.V a.C.) Scientist. He was the first to affirm that Heart is rounded and orbiting.
Vittorini Elio (1907-1967) Writer. Antologia americana - Conversazione in Sicilia  - Uomini e no - Piccola borghesia - Il Menabò
Epicarmo (sec. V a.C.) Playwright
Filemone (362- ? a.C.) Playwright
Teocrito (III sec. a.C.) Poet
Mosco (III sec. a.C.) Poet
Politi Raffaello (1783 - 1870)
Gargallo Tommaso (1760-1843) Poet
Gagliardo Rosario Architect
Avolio Giuseppe Corrado (1843-1905) Linguist
Zummo Gaetano (1636-1701) Modeler

Were born at Enna

Savarese Nino (1882-1945) Writer and Poet. His works: Singolari avventure - Congedi - Cronachette siciliane.
Vetri Paolo (1855-1937) Painter. His paints can be found at Naples, Palermo, Assisi , Nola.
Alessi Giuseppe (1774-1873) Erudite
Gallina Giovanni (sec. XVII) Sculptor
Colajanni Napoleone
(1847-1921)
Politician. Irredentist of 1914. Professor at Naples.
Coppola Pietro Antonio (1793-1877) Musician

Were born at Trapani

Nasi Nunzio (1850-1935)
Politician. Mail and Education Minister, condemned unfairly for peculation, relected, returned to the Government Room (1913) and he stayed there untill 1926. Popular between the Sicilian electors.
Carrera Vito (1555-1631) Painter
Errante Giuseppe (1760-1821) Painter
Fardella Vincenzo (1808-1889)

Politician.Sicilian leader after the 1848 revoultion.

Matera Francesco (1653-1718) Sculptor
Amico Giovan Biagio (1684-1754) Architect
Ximenes Leonardo (1716-1786) Architect
Beltrami Vito (1805-1884) Patriot
Daita Gaetano (1806-1887)  Patriot
Calvino Salvatore (1820-1883) Patriot
Lombardi Eliodoro (1834-1894) Poet
Scontrino Antonio (1850-1922) Musician. “Metelda”

Were born at Ragusa

Vann'Antò'
Giovanni Antonio Di Giacomo (1891-1960)

Poet He wrote his books using the Sicilian dialect. "Indovinelli Popolari Siciliani".

Baglivi Giorgio (1669-1706) Doctor
Odierna Giovan Battista (1597-1660) Astronomist and Pyshician

Were born at Agrigento

Pirandello Luigi (1867-1936)

Nobel Prize winner in 1934


Writer. As almost all the Verism's authors, the wtiter had a favor for the environment of humiliates farmers and the small bourgeois. But there's no revolt in his Naturalism society. Pirandello took aim writing about the same men, imprisoned with no remedy in their unhappy conditions, with their contradictions and illusions. 
His novels were collected in: Novelle per un anno. Liolà - Pensami Giacomino - Così è (se vi pare) - Il berretto a sonagli - Enrico IV - Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore.
Acrone(sec. V a.C.) Medico
Uffreduzzi Ottorino (1885-1943) Surgeon. Surgery Clinic director at Turin.
Empedocle (sec. V a.C.) Philosopher

Were born at Caltanissetta

Tricomi Ernesto (1959-1929)

Surgeon. Professor at Bologna and Palermo, he wrote an important manual about surger's infections.

Fratelloni Giuseppe (XIX secolo) Painter
Tripisciano Michele (1860-1913)

Sculptor. His works are at Palazzo di Giustizia, Rome. Other works on the UK and States.

Pier Maria Rosso di San Secondo
(1887-1956)
Playwright

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