below shows you all the
famous people that have lived here. They're quite many, aren't they?
This picture is in the Conference Room in the building of the Provincia
of Arezzo, right in front of the Town Hall. You may not know that worldwide famous personalities were born and lived in
Arezzo and its province over the centuries. What..!?! Surprised?? No, no.. you're
right! There are even the names of
Michelangelo and Leonardo..... And who else? The picture
below shows you all the
famous people that have lived here. They're quite many, aren't they?
This picture is in the Conference Room in the building of the Provincia
of Arezzo, right in front of the Town Hall.
From left to right you can see: Mecenate, G. Ubertini, Guittone, F.Petrarca, Masaccio, P.Bracciolini, C. Landino, L. Signorelli, G. Monaco, Margaritone, S. Margherita, Spinello, L. Bruni, P. della Francesca, Mino da Poppi, M. Buonarroti, A.Sansovino, G. Vasari, P. Aretino, A.Cesalpino, A del Borro, B.Tanucci, P.Benvenuti, B.Dovizi, G. III Del Monte, B. Varchi, P. Berrettini, F. Redi, V. Fossombroni.
But you won't hear of them all... just of the most famous ones...
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B.C.)A highly educated man of Royal Etruscan descent was first among Emperor Augustus's councillors. Very popular at his times he started a kind of cultural club, promoting the great Augustean literature and even inspiring the most renowned poets of the time, such as Virgil and Horace.
Guido d'Arezzo is usually known in Italy as Guido Monaco and is worldwide famous for having invented the musical scale. He was a Benedictine monk in the abbey of Pomposa, near Ravenna, but his life there was quite hard as he had started off a reform which, we presume, did not only involve the musical field. So he came to Arezzo and as he was welcomed by the Bishop of the time, he decided to stay there for long.
He was a very good painter in Tuscany, second in fame only to Cimabue. There are many of his paintings in our churches.
Petrarch was undoubtedly the most important Italian poet of the XIVth century. He is said to have started a new literary trend, the Humanism, together with Giovanni Boccaccio another famous writer of that period.
A poet, a satiric writer, who is mainly famous for his 'Letters' where he spoke of politics, fashion, Rome, Christians and Saracens, army leaders and money with praises for Tuscan food and wine and news of the 'Chimera of Arezzo'.
Famous painter and sculptor, his most famous works of art are 'la Pietą' and the frescoes in The Sistine Chapel.
A Renaissance painter from Borgo 
S.
Sepolcro, a small town in
the province of Arezzo, who is worldwide famous for his frescoes of 'The Legend
of the Cross' in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo. Through the study of the
figures produced in Greco-Roman antiquity, he was able to realize his own
figures, using exact geometrical measurements, creating a scientific synthesis
of structure and colour.
In the summer of 1502 he made numerous
geomorphological maps of the valleys
around Arezzo for Cesare Borgia. He was profoundly moved by this countryside
and, in particular, by upper Valdarno, which he used as a background for his
most famous works of art:from the Mona Lisa to the Sant'Anna. There is also a
clear similarity between the bridge over the River Arno at Buriano
and
the bridge in the background of the Mona Lisa.
The most outstanding person in
Arezzo in this century. He was very well
known in Italy as a painter,
architect and a writer too. He was the architect of the Uffizi in Florence, and
the Logge Vasari in Arezzo just to mention some of his important works. He wrote
a book about the lives of the famous artists of his time, ' Vite dei pił
eccellenti architetti, pittori, scrittori e scultori' which is still taken into
high consideration.
A doctor famous for having discovered the circulation of blood and the first
man to classify plants scientifically.
A doctor, biologist and poet: his 'Bacco in Toscana' is one of the best
and most amusing elements of Baroque literature in Italy.
He worked as an engineer for the
Grand Duke of Tuscany but had a
relevant role in the political life of the time too: he was prime minister for many years. He
did quite many works in town but he is mainly famous for the drainage of the marshy
Valdichiana, one of the four vallies around Arezzo.
So... Now..... come with us ........we'll take you to visit the house of Petrarca and Vasari ....
