Vitelli family

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 6,130 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Vitelli]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|fr|Vitelli}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The House of Vitelli, among other families so named, were a prominent noble family of Umbria, rulers of Città di Castello and lesser rocche.

History[edit]

In spite of ambitious genealogies, there is no demonstrable connection with the ancient Roman Vitellius (gens). The Vitelli had been rich merchants of Città di Castello, who made themselves masters of the town in the early fourteenth century, after civic confrontations with the rival Guelf faction of the Brancaleone, and henceforward wielded political and military influence disproportionate to their small territory, as supporters of the Papacy.

Members of the historic family[edit]

• Giovan Luigi "Chiappino" Vitelli (1519–1575), soldier.
• Francesco Vitelli (1586–1646), Roman Catholic ecclesiastic.
• Niccolò Vitelli (1414–1486), condottiero.
• Vitellozzo Vitelli (c. 1458–1502), condottiero.
• Paolo Vitelli (condottiero), lord of Montone.
• Paolo II Vitelli, marquess of Cetona and Carmiano.
• Giovan Paolo Vitelli, known as Giovanni (died 1512).

There is a Palazzo Vitelli in many towns of Central Italy, notably the three in Città di Castello, where in addition to Palazzo Vitelli a Sant'Egidio, Palazzo Vitelli a San Giacomo (Palazzo Vitelli in Piazza), stands at the heart of the city. The 16th-century Palazzo Vitelli alla Cannoniera now houses an art gallery.

In other comuni and cities:

• Cetona: Palazzo Vitelli, built for Marchese Giovan Luigi "Chiappino" Vitelli
• Pisa
• Rome: Palazzo Vitelli in Campo Marzio

Modern people named Vitelli[edit]

• Joe Vitelli (1908 - 1967), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Paolo Vitelli (businessman), yacht manufacturer (Azimut-Benetti)

In fiction[edit]

• Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather
• Andrea Vitelli is the protagonist of Paul Féval, père's novel Bel Demonio

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Vitelli.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.