Correggio (Emilia-Romagna)

Correggio is a town with 25,130 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the Italian province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia -Romagna region.

The city is the second most important center of the province after the capital, Reggio Emilia, which is situated 18 kilometers south. The urban area covers 77 km ².

History

Correggio was already in Roman times, a settlement, later the area was inhabited by the Lombards. However, his heyday was the place in the 15th and 16th century, when it was the capital of a small Signoria, under whose rule had some famous Renaissance writer in the city, including Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Daniele Adani ( born 1974 ), football player
  • Bonuses Asioli (1769-1832), music theorist, music educator, harpsichordist, conductor and composer
  • Salvatore Bagni ( b. 1956 ), football player
  • Francesco Balbi (1505-1589), chronicler of the siege of Malta in 1565
  • Antonio da Correggio ( Antonio Allegri actually; 1489-1534 ), painter of the Renaissance
  • Dorando Pietri (1885-1942), a marathon runner at the Olympic Games 1908
  • Luciano Ligabue ( born 1960 ), rock musician, writer, director
  • Loris Malaguzzi (1920-1994), educator
  • Pier Vittorio Tondelli (1955-1991), writer
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