PERSONALITIES
He was born on November 3rd, 1795 and his parents were Alessio Comi and Rosaria Cascioli .The doctor Antonio Giuliani discovered how intelligent the boy was in the field of the chemistry. At the age of fifteen Vincenzo, as the doctor Giuliani suggested, left Torano and moved to Teramo to continue his studies. He was helped by his father who sold his house and his properties. Vincenzo spent five years in Teramo, then he went
to
Napoli, where he studied under famous teachers.
With the enthusiasm of his young age he devoted himself to
the studies of physics and chemistry. In the 1788 the
naturalist Spallanzani explored
the south of Italy . He wanted
Vincenzo Comi as companion for
his scientific excursions .They went into the Vesuvio and
spent two days inside the volcano
on the 5th November 1788. At the end of the 1790, he returned
to Torano and devoted himself to the
profession of a doctor only
for friends and the poor. On
September 4th, 1791 he married Maria Grazia Pallotta and they had children.
He dedicated much time with them without compromising his medical
research.. In these years he was the first in Italy to utilize chemistry
in relation to the industry. He proposed
that the Superior Council of the Royal Finances found an artificial
alum-mine .
Teramo
was not yet a safe place for
Vincenzo Comi. Since he had fought
a battle for the cessation of unjust laws and abuses of powers , he was
constantly persecuted. Therefore he lived a life of exile till the
proclamation of the Repubblica Partenopea.
He
added a leather tanning
factory to the tartar cream factory in 1802. He also added a factory for
licorice extraction and for the production of the purified potash in1809.
He
was elected deputy for the province of Teramo in the Neapolitan Parliament
in 1820. He proposed a fund to support the development of industry and
of agriculture.
Vincenzo
Comi died on October 10th, 1830 in
Giulianova and his remains are buried in the little temple of the
Acquaviva Counts .
In
1882 the Technical Institute of the kingdom in Teramo was named after
Vincenzo Comi.
Padre Francesco da Torano
He lived in the XVII century and he belonged to the Order of the Franciscan Friars Minor .For a lot of years he was a theology teacher in Rome and, during this period he wrote ascetics works and works of dogmatic theology. Among this, the most important was “Firmamentum Virginium” on the Virginity of the Lady.
Beato
Agostino Novello
It
seems the blessed Agostino Novello came from Torano N. He lived in the
XIII century. He was the adviser of the king Manfredi
and pontifical penitentiary after
the nomination of the Pope Bonifacio VIII. He was the general
minister of the Agostinian
Order too. Later he received the
beatification.