page_title: Alcamo
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Alcamo / People
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Antico Frantoio Vallone - Alcamo
context_page_description: Alcamo is the fourth-largest town in the province of Trapani in Sicily, with a population of 45,374 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilometres from Palermo and Trapani.
  Nowadays the town territory includes an area of 130.79 square kilometres and is the second municipality as for population density in the province of Trapani, after Erice.
  Alcamo is bounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, Balestrate and Partinico on the east, Camporeale on the south and Calatafimi-Segesta and Castellammare del Golfo on the west. Its most important hamlet is Alcamo Marina at about 6 kilometres from the town centre.
  Together with other municipalities it takes part in the Associazione Città del Vino, the movement Patto dei Sindaci, Progetto Città dei Bambini, Rete dei Comuni Solidali and Patto Territoriale Golfo di Castellammare.
context_section_description: Cielo d'Alcamo (13th century), poet
  Arcangelo Placenza from Calatafimi (1390–1460), presbyter and Franciscan friar
  Sebastiano Bagolino (1560–1604) poet and painter
  Guglielmo Borremans (1672–1744) Flemish painter
  Agostino Pantò, founder of Accademia giustinianea (1675–1735)
  Ignazio De Blasi (1717–1783) historian
  Giuseppe Renda (1772–1805), painter
  Felice Pastore Cambon (1786–1862), baron of Rincione, politician and benefactor
  Girolamo Surdi (1819–1897), bandmaster
  Girolamo Caruso (1842–1923), agronomist and teacher at university
  Benedetto Di San Giuseppe (1847–1906), politician and senator of Reign of Italy in the XVIII Legislature
  Pietro Maria Rocca (1847–1918), historian
  Francesco Maria Mirabella (1850–1931), historian, school teacher, poet
  Giuseppe Rizzo (1863–1912), presbyter, founder of the homonymous Cassa Rurale ed Artigiana
  Nino Navarra (poet) 1885–1917 poet, writer, gold medal for his military value
  Vito Fazio Allmayer 1885–1958, philosopher, pedagogist and university teacher
  Pietro Montana (1890–1978), sculptor, painter and teacher
  Gaspare Cannone (1893–1963), writer, anarchist
  Peter H. Ruvolo (1895–1943), lawyer and politician
  Gaspare Canino (1900–1977), puppeteer
  Vincenzo Rimi (1902–1975), criminal
  Nicola Rubino (1905–1984) sculptor and painter
  Giuseppe Bambina, (1905–1994) sculptor and teacher
  Giuseppe Cottone, literary critic (1905–2009)
  Don Ignazio Provenza (1911–1943), priest and military chapelain, dead during World War II
  Vincenzo Regina (1910–2009), historian, presbyter
  Vito Guarrasi (1914–1999), lawyer and entrepreneur
  Salvatore Asta (1915–2004), Catholic archbishop and diplomat
  Gino Patti (1925–1993), painter
  Ludovico Corrao (1927–2011), politician and senator.
  Turi Simeti (1929), painter.
  Francesco Parrino, (1931–1985), senator and Undersecretary for the Arts in Fanfani 5th government.
  Carlo Cataldo (1933), historian and poet.
  Nicolò Mineo (1934), literary critic and academician.
  Francesco Paolo Lucchese (1935), doctor and deputy.
  Baldassare Lauria (1935), doctor and senator.
  Fausto Cannone, (1938–2017), folk Singer-songwriter, Poet and teacher
  Vincenza Bono Parrino (1942), Minister for the Arts in De Mita's government and teacher
  Giacomo Romano Davare (1945), writer, stage director and teacher.
  Gisella Giovenco (Ferrara, 1946) painter, stylist and publicist
  Franca Viola (1947), the first Italian woman who refused the repairing wedding.
  Roberto Calia (1950), historian
  Giuseppe Lo Presti (1958–1995), writer and criminal
  Massimo Saverio Ennio Fundarò (1958), politician and deputy.
  Antonino Papania (1959), politician and senator.
  Antonino Raspanti (1959), Catholic bishop.
  Benedetto Lo Monaco (1960), actor
  Vito Bongiorno (1963), painter.
  Calandra & Calandra (Maurizio 1960, Giuseppe 1969), Folk singers
  Christian Rocca (1968), journalist and writer
  Stefano La Colla, tenor
  Domenico Piccichè (1970) pianist and teacher
  Ignazio Corrao (1984), politician and eurosceptic eurodeputy
  Sara Renda (1991), Étoile at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
caption: An oil mill in Alcamo (Antico Frantoio Vallone).
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