EMINENT
INHABITANTS OF MONTESACRO
Since Montesacro
has existed only since the 1910s, we cannot speak of illustrious
inhabitants before that era, but we know that some illustrious
ancient Romans had their rustic villas in the countryside area
that revolved around the road via Nomentana (formerly called via
Ficulensis) or on the Via Salaria. Among others Seneca lived in
the Ager Nomentanum, the countryside around Nomentum and
the scholar Pomponius Atticus lived in the Ager Ficulensis.
As for the twentieth century onwards, here is a largely incomplete
list of renowned residents:
- Palmiro Togliatti (1893-1964),
Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party, lived in via
dell'Assietta (5, largo Arbe) until his death.
- Pietro
Secchia
(1903-1973) senior figure of the Italian
Communist Party.
- Attalo
(Gioacchino Colizzi)
(1894-1986) cartoonist, lived for a
long time in via Gran Sasso.
- Peppino
De Filippo
(1903-1980) actor and playwright, lived
in 761, via Nomentana, where a plaque was affixed.
- Ennio
Flaiano
(1910-1972) author and screenwriter,
lived in via Montecristo, 4, where a plaque was affixed and few meters away from there
a stairway remembers him.
- Giorgio
Bassani
(1916-2000) author, lived for a long
time in 16, via Gran Sasso.
- Giovanni
Giudici
(1924-2011) poet, from 1935 lived in
viale Jonio and attended classical lycée Orazio, after
his wedding he lived in via Monte Nevoso, 17.
- Corrado
(Corrado Mantoni)
(1924-1999) TV anchorman and author,
lived for a long time in viale Jonio.
- Luis
Bacalov
(1933-2017) composer, mainly of soundtracks.
- Luigi
"Giggi" Proietti
(1940-2020) actor, singer, director,
grew up in the Tufello district, where four murals have been dedicated
to him: in via
Tonale,
via
Capraia,
piazza
degli Euganei
and viale
Jonio.
- Riccardo
Cocciante
(1946) singer-songwriter and composer,
lived in the neighborhood of via Val d'Ossola.
- Claudio
Baglioni
(1951) singer-songwriter, he lived
at the Nuovo Salario and made his debut in the Espero cinema theater,
in 11-19, via Nomentana Nuova.
- Rino
Gaetano
(1950-1981) singer-songwriter, lived
from 1970 to 1981 in a building in 53, via Nomentana Nuova, where
a plaque was affixed in 2011. In
June 2020 in via Maiella, a few meters from his home, a talking
portrait
of Rino appeared in découpage.
The Third District of the city of Rome has dedicated to Rino a
cross street of via Mario Soldati, near
Porta di Roma shopping centre.
Many other famous people lived or currently live in Montesacro,
as Sabina
Guzzanti,
Corrado
Guzzanti,
Paolo
Bonacelli.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
DEMIRGIAN Francesca (2020) Gigi Proietti, i murales invadono Roma:
la mappa per vederli tutti. RomaToday, 10 novembre 2020. link
FELTRINELLI Carlo (1999) Senior Service. Feltrinelli, Milano.
LEONE Laura (2011) “Qui è vissuto Rino Gaetano”,
apposta una targa sulla casa di Montesacro dell’indimenticabile
cantautore ... La Voce del Nord Est romano, 8 giugno 2011.
link
TISO Antonio (a cura di) (2021) Come eravamo - Montesacro.
Community Book, n. 1, maggio 2021.
MONTESACRO
IN THE MOVIES:
- Ladri di biciclette
(Bicycle
Thieves), directed
by Vittorio De Sica 1948 palazzo
at the corner of via Gran Paradiso and via Scarpanto (plaque
on the spot). YouTube
-
I soliti ignoti (Persons
Unknown), directed by Mario Monicelli,
1958. Vittorio Gassmann courts
Carla Gravina on via Nomentana viaduct (over viale Etiopia) YouTube
- Taxisti
di notte (Night
on Earth), directed
by Jim Jarmusch, 1991 (vignette "Rome"). Roberto Benigni,
Roman cabdriver, drives around the city at night with a bishop
(Paolo Bonacelli), passing among other places through piazza
Sempione and via Subasio. YouTube
WEBSITES
VISITED:
http://www.spakka.info/spakka/montesacro/
http://www.romamontesacro.it/
http://www.cittagiardino.it
http://www.hostariamenenioagrippa.it/index-7.html
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created:
March
21st, 2022 and last updated:
November
6th, 2024