Notable People
- Pietro Vezzi, philosopher and physician of the Schola Medica Salernitana.
- Thomas II, Bishop of Nocera in Apulia in 1328.
- Sichelman, a tenth-century figure mentioned in the Chronicon Salernitanum. He invented a stone-throwing siege engine for Gisulf I of Salerno.
- Giovanni Freda, president of the High Court.
- Vitale Luppo, conductor.
- Giacinto Maselli, distinguished scholar and poet.
- Andrea Angelo Zottoli, sinologist and Jesuit missionary, was born in Acerno in 1826 and died in Shanghai in 1902. His major work is the Cursus litteraturae sinicae (5 vols., 1879–82), including translation into Latin of the greatest works in prose and poetry in Chinese literature.
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