Famous Residents
See Category:People from Arezzo, which includes people actually born in town.
- Guido d'Arezzo, the most notable music theorist of the Middle Ages and inventor of modern music notation, was born there around the year 991.
- Bartolomeo di ser Gorello, author of the first town chronicle of Arezzo.
- Piero della Francesca, the painter, was born in the province of Arezzo and spent most of his life in the city.
- Petrarch, the poet.
- Pietro Aretino,author, playwright, poet and satirist who wielded immense influence on contemporary art and politics and invented modern literate pornography.
- Giorgio Vasari, the painter, architect, and biographer.
- Francesco Redi, a 17th century physician.
- Poggio Bracciolini and Michelangelo were born near the town.
- Negrita (band), a Rock, Blues, Latin Music Band.
- Daniele Bennati, cyclist.
- Federico Luzzi, Former ATP Tennis Player
- Luc Ferrari, Avant Garde Composer
- Dylan and Cole Sprouse, American actors, starring in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody and The Suite Life on Deck
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“What climbs the stair?
Nothing that common women ponder on
If you are worth my hope! Neither Content
Nor satisfied Conscience, but that great family
Some ancient famous authors misrepresent,
The Proud Furies each with her torch on high.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)