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In an epoch indifferent to the memory of great men, we aim, with
these pages, to remember the illustrious figures of our
fellow-citizens and, especially, to honor and to recall the best
children of the Town from the oblivion of the past.
Especially from 1700 to 1800,
our Bronte was fecund of illustrious personalities, a crowd of "select
intelligences" formed in the great forge of Sicilian learning
which, in those centuries, the Capizzi College had become and that
gave:
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Illustriuos prelates: monsignor Giuseppe Saitta,
cardinal Antonino Saverio De Luca, |
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notoriously pious men and
benefactors: venerable Ignazio Capizzi, Brother Tommaso Schiros,
P. Tommaso Pittalà, Father Antonino Uccellatore (Father Purgatory),
Giovanni Piccino, Pietro Graziano Calanna, priest, donna
Maria Scafiti, priest
Giuseppe Salanitri, priest Antonino
Marcantonio, ... |
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philosopher and freelance
journalists: Nicola Spedalieri (the best known), Vincenzo Saverio
Raimondi, Gesualdo De Luca, Benedetto Radice, Antonio Radice |
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Latin poets: Vincenzo
Scafiti, Biagio Caruso, Francesco Gatto, Vincenzo Schilirò |
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jurists and economists:
Filadelfio Artale, Antonino Cairone,
Placido De Luca, Enrico, Eduardo e Giuseppe Cimbali |
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famous medical doctors:
Arcangelo Spedalieri, Giuseppe Grassi,
Gino Schilirò |
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«No doubt, with those here mentioned, it is not exhausted the catalogue of
the remarkable individuals, that our town has produced.
But here we could only mention those which, being expressed in their
works, could, more or less, become public figures.
The others, great on their own, or great for the limited parochial environment,
except a vague memory between our fellow citizens, did not leave to
us any titles showing their greatness.»
(Giuseppe
Cimbali, "Nicola Spedalieri publicist of the XVIII° century", 1888).
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Bronte's
families, genealogies, and surnames evolution
by Nunzio Longhitano |
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