page_title: Tortona
section_title: People
hierarchical_section_title: Tortona / People
caption_attribution_description: Chiesa o oratorio nei pressi di via Montemerlo, Tortona, Piemonte, Italia
context_page_description: Tortona is a comune of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines.
context_section_description: People born in Tortona, or with close links to the town, include:
  Saint Marcian of Tortona (died perhaps around 120 CE) is traditionally said to have been the first bishop of Tortona.
  Saint Innocent of Tortona (died ca. 350), who survived the persecutions and was sent as bishop to Tortona by Pope Sylvester.
  Bishop Gezo of Tortona in the 10th century wrote a Treatise on the Body and Blood of the Lord.
  Marziano da Tortona, secretary to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti of Milan, is one of the people credited with inventing the card game of Tarocchi .
  Saint Luigi Orione (1872–1940) founded the Sanctuary of the Madonna della Guardia in Tortona.
  Lorenzo Perosi (1872–1956), an associate of Orione, was a composer of church music and "Perpetual Director" of the Sistine Choir.
  Marziano Perosi (1875–1959), composer, organist, choir director, and brother of Lorenzo.
  Fausto Coppi (1919–1960), Italian racing cyclist.
  Giuseppe Campora (1923–2004), operatic tenor.
  Enrico Bellone, (1938-), physicist and writer.
  Ivo Milazzo (1947-), Italian comic book artist.
  Luisa Ottolini (1954-), Italian physicist.
  Majorian (420–461), Western Roman Emperor from 457 until his death, is said to have died here.
  Judith of Bavaria (c.805–843), Holy Roman Empress and Queen of the Franks, was exiled to Tortona (when her husband Louis the Pious was briefly overthrown) in 833, and rescued in 834.
  Ufomammut (active 1999-), doom metal band.
caption: Ancient church in the town center
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