He was born Domenico Gangala into a poor family in Monteprandone. In 1412 he got his degree in law in Perugia. He left the attorneyship in 1416 and entered the Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans). In his long life, he was a preacher, an inquisitor, a writer, a counsellor of kings and lords, a pacifier and an apostolic nuncio in Eastern-Europe. He promoted the construction of libraries, hospitals, orphanages. St. James of the Marches wrote municipal…

The painter Vincenzo Pagani (Monterubbiano 1490 ca.-1568) who learned his craft in his father, Giovanni Pagani’s, workshop. Vincenzo’s painting, The Assumption of the Virgin Mary” is in the Collegiate Church of  Santa Maria dei Letterati.

Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti (1853-1902), inventor of the Coherer, an element used in the development of the telegraph.

Oreste Murani (1853- 1937) premier physicist and luminary at Milan’s Polytechnic Institute.

Eugenio Centanni (1863-1942) world-renowned scientist who studied filterable viruses, tumours, in vitro tissue cultures and discovered specific and aspecific vaccines (stomosines).

With her translation from Latin and Greek Rosa Calzecchi-Onesti (1916-2011) enriched the Italian humanistic heritage by making works like the Iliade, the Odyssey and the Aeneid accessible to a vast public.

Good Friday in even-numbered years has always been solemnified by the Brotherhood of Holy Mary of Intercession, with the paraliturgical rite of the “three hours of agony” and the renowned procession of the “Dead Christ”. This Brotherhood has had the duty of honouring and praying for the deceased and celebrating solemnly Christ’s Passion. The monumental carriage of triumph built in the mid 1800s, which carries the 17th century casket which renders the vision…

When spring is at its height, on the feast of Pentecost, the historical festival of the Armata di Pentecoste takes place in Monterubbiano. Though it is difficult to date the origins of this festival accurately, there are 16th century documents which attest to its historical authenticity and an origin which dates back to the “Ver Sacrum”, the sacred Piceno spring, which attributes to it an very long uninterrupted historical continuity. According to the tradition handed down by Plinius, Festo and Strabone, young Sabine…

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Ignazio Erei, poeta, nacque a Montedinove il 2 marzo 1691;