Like everyplace in the world, streets and buildings are often named after people of the City and/or the Country, who played an important role in its life. Forlì is no different.
The aim of this section is to give concise background information on people, after whom many streets and building were named.
Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was the historian who coined the term Middle Ages and is known as one of the first archaeologists.
Born in Naples(1861), Diaz began his military career as a student at the Military Academy of Turin, where he became an artillery officer. He was a colonel commanding the 93rd infantry during the Italo-Turkish War, and major general in 1914. On the outbreak of the World War I, he was assigned to the high command as head of the unit's operations under General Luigi Cadorna. He was promoted to 2-star general in June, 1916, and assumed the command of the 49th division and then the 23rd army corps.
Saint Peregrine (Pellegrino) Laziosi (Latiosi) (1265 - 1 May 1345) is an Italian saint. He is the patron saint for persons suffering from cancer, AIDS and other serious diseases, according to the Catholic Church.
Mazzini was born in Genoa, then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, under the rule of the House of Savoy. His father, Giacomo, was a university professor who had adhered to Jacobin ideology; his mother, Maria Drago, was renowned for her beauty and religious fervour. Since a very early age, Mazzini showed good learning qualities (as well as a precocious interest towards politics and literature), and was admitted to the University at only 15, graduating in law in 1826, initially practicing as a "poor man's lawyer". He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell'amor patrio di Dante ("On Dante's Patriotic Love"), which was published in 1837. In 1828-1829 he collaborated with a Genoese newspaper, L'indicatore genovese, which was however soon closed by the Piedmontese authorities.
Melozzo came, it is supposed, of a wealthy family named Ambrosi from Forlì. Nothing is known about his early years, and it is only a hypothesis that he formed at the Forlivese school of art (Forlì painting school), then ruled by Ansuino da Forlì, for they were both influenced by the Mantegna manner.
Geronimo (or Girolamo) Mercuriali (or Mercuriale; also known by his Latin name of Hieronymus Mercurialis) (September 30, 1530-November 13, 1606) was an Italian philologist and physician, most famous for his work De Arte Gymnastica.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (February 25, 1682 – December 6, 1771 ), Italian anatomist, was born on at Forlì and he is celebrated as the father of the modern anatomical pathology.
Palmezzano (c. 1460 – 1539) was an Italian painter and architect, who painted in a style recalling earlier Northern Renaissance models, and was mostly active near Forlì.
Aurelio Saffi (August 13, 1819–April 10, 1890) was an Italian politician, active during the period of Italian unification. He was an important figure in the radical republican current within the Risorgimento movement and close to its leader and chief inspiration, Giuseppe Mazzini.
Caterina Sforza (1463 – May 10, 1509), countess of Forlì, was an illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza.
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