Tito Flavio Vespasiano

With a magnificent theater bearing its name in the historic centre of the city of Rieti, Tito Flavio Vespasiano, the founder of Rome, was born in Sabina, in Cittareale. Here,…

Marco Terenzio Varrone

He was born in Rieti in 116 BC and died in Rome in 27 BC A man of high culture, he was considered until the Middle Ages, the “greatest Roman…

Antonino Calcagnadoro

Born in Rieti in 1876, in the panorama of the Roman artistic culture between the, in the, the personality of the  Antonino Calcagnadoro was born in Rieti in 1876, surrounded…

Antonio Gherardi

Antonio Gherardi was born in Rieti on September 20, 1638 to Giulia Poggi and Stefano Tatoti, a craftsman of the small-town bourgeoisie. His outstanding talent for painting is apparent at…

Nazareno Strampelli and its grain

Nazareno Strampelli, (Crispiero di Castelraimondo, 29 May 1866 – Rome, 23 January 1942), was an agronomist, geneticist and Italian politician, precursor of the green revolution. Among the most important Italian…

Renzo De Felice

“The historian cannot be one-sided, he cannot a priori deny the “reasons” of one party and take over those of another one. He can contest them, but not before having…

Angelo Maria Ricci

Appreciated Italian cartoonist, he was born in Rieti on June 18, 1946. After graduating from the Art Institute, he moved to Milan and in 1971 began working as an illustrator…