The commitment of the locals to the Resistenza during the Nazi occupation has been very remarkable, and two residents of Monte Sacro, the partisans Ferdinando Agnini and Orlando Orlandi Posti, were killed in the Ardeatine massacre. The whole neighborhood, particularly Piazza Sempione and Viale Jonio, is the setting of Beppe Fenoglio's novel "Primavera di bellezza", set in the resistance years.