Identity area
Reference code
MT NAM MEM-0002GF
Title
Giovanni Fragapane
Date(s)
- 1800-2019 (Creation)
Level of description
Subfonds
Extent and medium
1 oral history audio recording, 1 transcript, 6 digital surrogates of photographic paper, 3 born-digital photographs, 4 digital surrogates of ephemera
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Accession number: 2019-10
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Giovanni Fragapane was born in Lampedusa on the 21st of September 1939, the son of a fisherman and a housewife. He had studied History of Art in Rome and had lived in different places, including Palermo and Milan. He was a professor of History of Art in Aprilia and in Lampedusa and between 1983 to 1993 he was also the mayor of Lampedusa. He had published a book about the island titled 'Lampedusa' and is considered the island's historian.