Born in Terra del Sole on 17 February 1872 and died in Forlì on 10 July 1936.
He was one of the most active propagandists as well as the main founder and First Secretary of the Italian Republican Party in Romagna, an area in which the Mazzini school of thought was very popular thanks to Aurelio Saffi. Gaudenzi was also one of the most tenacious supporters of the party’s rebuilding after the split between ‘Mazzini associates’ and ‘collectivists’.
In 1890, he founded the newspaper ‘La Romagna’. Gaudenzi set up the first Republican economic organizations in the Forlì area, setting an example, among others, to the younger Giovanni Querzoli: Gaudenzi proved to be a passionate orator popular among the people. He became Forlì’s Republican deputy, in the 22nd legislature, from 1904 to 1919 and pro-mayor of the city from 1919 to 1923. When the First World War broke out, Gaudenzi reluctantly joined interventionism. Defeated in the 1919 political elections, the same year he took over the leadership of Forlì City Council, a role he held until 30 October 1922, when the Fascists’ occupation of the City Hall forced his resignation along with that of the entire council.
During his last mandate as mayor in 1921, he inaugurated the monument to Aurelio Saffi in Forlì main square, today Piazza Aurelio Saffi. A bust of Giuseppe Gaudenzi stands at the Parco della Resistenza in Forlì. A plaque commemorates him in his birth house in Terra del Sole.
In 1870 Aristide Conti, a Castrocaro entrepreneur, discovered a new thermal spring near his home.
He then started a new enterprise, which expanded the pre-existing bathing sites with water from the Bolga and Cozzi springs, both located in the northern area, giving new impetus to the emerging spa industry.
In 1887, construction of the Conti Thermal Baths began, and in 1899, park landscaping began, subsequently decorated with sculptures made in an early 19th century workshop by the sculptor Casalini.
Monsignor Antonio Laghi was born in Castrocaro Terme in 1668 and, after the death of his mother, he joined the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor while doing his novitiate at La Verna.
Once ordained a priest, he decided to go as a missionary to China. He left on 5 February 1697, at the age of 29, taking almost three years to reach his intended mission. During the long journey he was in life-threatening danger several times. Through his works, he converted thousands of Chinese, was repeatedly persecuted, beaten, condemned and imprisoned.
On 12 September 1715 he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the provinces of Ken-Sy and Kan-Sy, and on 20 June 1717 he was consecrated Bishop of Lorima by Bishop Bernardino della Chiesa, Bishop of Peking. After a year of exile in Canton, was back in his diocese where he died on 5 July 1727 from a disease caused by unhealthy air.
Jacopo Cicognini (Castrocaro, 27 March 1577-Florence, 27 October 1633) was an Italian poet and playwright known for combining literary activity with notary work (his works include ‘Lagrime di Geremia profeta’ and ‘Andromeda’). He was an illegitimate son of the notary Bartolomeo and father to the dramatist and librettist Giacinto Andrea Cicognini, who wrote the melodramas ‘L’Orontea’ and ‘Il Giasone’.
In the years 1586-87 he lived in Florence. Sent by his father to Pisa where he studied law, Cicognini composed the Verse Opera ‘I quattro Novissimi’ in 1597, dedicating it to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Christine of Lorraine. The opera is kept in Florence’s National Library in autograph manuscripts illustrated by the author.
Cicognini later switched from Cardinal Sauli’s service to that of Cardinal Borghese, then to don Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, and finally obtained the governorship of Segni from Duke Sforza. He returned to Florence several times, where he married Isabella di Domenico Berti in 1605.
The following year, he began working as a notary in Florence, while simultaneously continuing his production of lyrics and dramas, which were welcomed in the Florentine literary milieu. He committed suicide by jumping out of a window in Florence in 1633, in circumstances that are still not completely clear.
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