Campo Verano

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Colonnade with funeral monuments at the Campo Verano.

The Campo Verano (Italian: Cimitero del Verano) is a cemetery in Rome, Italy, founded in the early 19th century. The monumental cemetery is currently divided into sections: the Jewish cemetery, the Catholic cemetery, and the monument to the victims of World War I.

History[]

The Verano (officially the "Communal Monumental Cemetery of Campo Verano") is located in the quartiere Tiburtino of Rome, near the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le mura. The name verano refers to the Ancient Roman campo dei Verani that was located here.

The zone contained ancient Christian catacombs. A modern cemetery was not established until the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy during 1807–1812, when the architect Giuseppe Valadier was commissioned for designs after the Edict of Saint Cloud required burials to take place outside of the city walls.[1] The papal authorities still have some control over the administration.[2] Pope Francis celebrated All Saints Day Mass here on a papal visit to the cemetery on 1 November 2014.[3]

Burials[]

People buried in Verano include:

  • Ferruccio Amendola, (1930–2001), film actor and voice actor
  • Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), politician, Prime Minister (1972–73, 1976–79, 1989–92)
  • Elio de Angelis (1958–1986), F1 racing driver
  • Pedro Arrupe, S.J. (1907–1991), Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83)
  • Ennio Balbo (1922–1989), film actor
  • Gunhild Bergh (1888-1961), Swedish writer, journalist, literary historian
  • Alessandro Blasetti, (1900–1987), film director
  • Mario Brega, (1923–1994), film actor
  • Bruno Corbucci, (1931–1996), film director and screenwriter
  • Sergio Corbucci, (1926–1990), film director and screenwriter
  • Armando Cossutta (1926–2015), politician and partisan
  • Eduardo De Filippo, (1900–1984), stage and film actor
  • Peppino De Filippo, (1903–1980), stage and film actor
  • Fr. Joseph de Finance, S.J. (1904–2000), French Jesuit and eminent Thomist philosopher
  • Vittorio De Sica, (1901–1974), film actor, director and screenwriter
  • Aldo Fabrizi, (1905–1990), film actor
  • Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), English novelist
  • Marià Fortuny (1838–1874), Catalan painter
  • Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949) ‒ Spanish fashion designer, lighting engineer, and painter
  • Rino Gaetano (1950–1981), singer and songwriter
  • Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901), Polish painter
  • Ciccio Ingrassia, (1922–2003), film actor
  • Nilde Iotti (1920–1999), politician and partisan, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1979–92)
  • Stanisław Klicki (1775–1847), Polish military commander
  • Luciano Lama (1921–1996), politician and trade unionist
  • Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979), politician and partisan
  • Oreste Lionello, (1927–2009), film actor and voice actor
  • Carlo Lizzani, (1922–2013), film director and screenwriter
  • Nanni Loy, (1925–1995), film director and screenwriter
  • Luigi Magni, (1928–2013), film director and screenwriter
  • Marcello Mastroianni, OMRI (1924–1996), film actor
  • Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930), Scottish translator of the Marcel Proust novel Remembrance of Things Past
  • Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), novelist and journalist
  • Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922), last surviving castrato at the time of his death
  • Claudia Muzio (1889–1936), soprano
  • Ernesto Nathan (1845–1921), politician, Mayor of Rome (1907–13)
  • Pietro Nenni (1891–1980), politician and partisan
  • Francesco Saverio Nitti (1868–1953), politician, Prime Minister (1919–20)
  • Giuseppe Paratore (1876–1967), politician, President of the Senate (1952–53)
  • Clara Petacci (1912–1945), mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
  • Liberius Pieterse (1905–1973), Dutch Capuchin Franciscan friar
  • Antonio Pietrangeli, (1919–1968), film director and screenwriter
  • Gillo Pontecorvo, (1919–2006), film director and screenwriter
  • Camilla Ravera (1889–1988), politician and partisan
  • Alfredo Reichlin (1925–2017), politician and partisan
  • George Santayana (1863–1952), American/Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
  • Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988), politician, President of Italy (1964–71)
  • Henricus Smeulders, Ocist Apostolic Commissioner to Canada
  • Alberto Sordi, OMRI (1920–2003), film actor and director
  • Silvio Spaventa (1822–1893), patriot and politician
  • Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli, 1929–2016), actor
  • Antonio Starabba di Rudinì (1839–1908), politician, Mayor of Palermo (1863–1866) and Prime Minister (1891–92, 1896–98)
  • Fidelis von Stotzingen O.S.B. (1871–1947), German Abbot Primate, (1913–47)
  • Palmiro Togliatti (1893–1964), politician and partisan
  • Cyril Toumanoff (1913–1997), Russian-born American historian and genealogist of Armenian-Georgian descent
  • Bruno Trentin (1926–2007), politician and trade unionist
  • Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), modernist poet, journalist, essayist
  • Alida Valli (1921–2006), film actress
  • Luigi Zampa, (1905–1991), film director and screenwriter
  • Riccardo Zanella (1875–1959), Fiuman politician, President of the Free State of Fiume (1921–24)
  • Israel Zolli (1881–1956), Jewish convert to Catholicism, professor, author
  • Ivan Dias (1936–2017), Cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay

References[]

  1. ^ Touring Club Italiano, Collana Guida d'Italia, Roma, Ottava edizione, 1993, p. 740. ISBN 88-365-0508-2.
  2. ^ Extracted from Italian Wikipedia entry
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-11-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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Coordinates: 41°54′09″N 12°31′15″E / 41.90250°N 12.52083°E / 41.90250; 12.52083

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