thumb|240px|Colonnade with funeral monuments at the Campo Verano.
The Campo Verano (Italian: Cimitero del Verano) is a cemetery in Rome, Italy,   founded in the early 19th century.
The monumental cemetery is currently divided into sections: the Jewish cemetery, the Catholic cemetery, and the monument to the victims of World War I. History
The Verano (officially  the "Communal Monumental Cemetery of Campo Verano") is located in the quartiere Tiburtino of Rome, near the Basilica of San Lorenzo fuori le mura.
The name verano refers to the Ancient Roman campo dei Verani that was located here.
The zone contained ancient Christian catacombs.
A modern cemetery was not established until the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy during 1807–1812, when the architect Giuseppe Valadier was commissioned for designs after the Edict of Saint Cloud required burials to take place outside of the city walls.Touring Club Italiano, Collana Guida d'Italia, Roma, Ottava edizione, 1993, p. 740. .
The papal authorities still have some control over the administration.Extracted from Italian Wikipedia entry Pope Francis celebrated All Saints Day Mass here on a papal visit to the cemetery on 1 November 2014.
Burials
People buried in Verano include:
Ferruccio Amendola, (1930–2001), film actor and voice actor
Giulio Andreotti (1919–2013), politician, Prime Minister (1972–73, 1976–79, 1989–92)
Elio de Angelis (1958–1986), F1 racing driver
Pedro Arrupe, S.J. (1907–1991), Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83)
Ennio Balbo (1922–1989), film actor
Gunhild Bergh (1888-1961), Swedish writer, journalist, literary historian
Alessandro Blasetti, (1900–1987), film director
Mario Brega, (1923–1994), film actor
Bruno Corbucci, (1931–1996), film director and screenwriter
Sergio Corbucci, (1926–1990), film director and screenwriter
Armando Cossutta (1926–2015), politician and partisan
Eduardo De Filippo, (1900–1984), stage and film actor
Peppino De Filippo, (1903–1980), stage and film actor
Fr. Joseph de Finance, S.J. (1904–2000), French Jesuit and eminent Thomist philosopher
Vittorio De Sica, (1901–1974), film actor, director and screenwriter
Aldo Fabrizi, (1905–1990), film actor
Ronald Firbank (1886–1926), English novelist
Marià Fortuny (1838–1874), Catalan painter
Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949) ‒ Spanish fashion designer, lighting engineer, and painter
Rino Gaetano (1950–1981), singer and songwriter
Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901), Polish painter
Ciccio Ingrassia, (1922–2003), film actor
Nilde Iotti (1920–1999), politician and partisan, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1979–92)
Stanisław Klicki (1775–1847), Polish military commander
Luciano Lama (1921–1996), politician and trade unionist
Ugo La Malfa (1903–1979), politician and partisan
Oreste Lionello, (1927–2009), film actor and voice actor
Carlo Lizzani, (1922–2013), film director and screenwriter
Nanni Loy, (1925–1995), film director and screenwriter
Luigi Magni, (1928–2013), film director and screenwriter
Marcello Mastroianni, OMRI (1924–1996), film actor
Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889–1930), Scottish translator of the Marcel Proust novel Remembrance of Things Past
Alberto Moravia (1907–1990), novelist and journalist
Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922), last surviving castrato at the time of his death
Claudia Muzio (1889–1936), soprano
Ernesto Nathan (1845–1921), politician, Mayor of Rome (1907–13)
Pietro Nenni (1891–1980), politician and partisan
Francesco Saverio Nitti (1868–1953), politician, Prime Minister (1919–20)
Giuseppe Paratore (1876–1967), politician, President of the Senate (1952–53)
Clara Petacci (1912–1945), mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
Liberius Pieterse (1905–1973), Dutch Capuchin Franciscan friar
Antonio Pietrangeli, (1919–1968), film director and screenwriter
Gillo Pontecorvo, (1919–2006), film director and screenwriter
Camilla Ravera (1889–1988), politician and partisan
Alfredo Reichlin (1925–2017), politician and partisan
George Santayana (1863–1952), American/Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
Giuseppe Saragat (1898–1988), politician, President of Italy (1964–71)
Henricus Smeulders, Ocist Apostolic Commissioner to Canada
Alberto Sordi, OMRI (1920–2003), film actor and director
Silvio Spaventa (1822–1893), patriot and politician
Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli, 1929–2016), actor
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì (1839–1908), politician, Mayor of Palermo (1863–1866) and Prime Minister (1891–92, 1896–98)
Fidelis von Stotzingen O.S.B. (1871–1947), German Abbot Primate, (1913–47)
Palmiro Togliatti (1893–1964), politician and partisan
Cyril Toumanoff (1913–1997), Russian-born American historian and genealogist of Armenian-Georgian descent
Bruno Trentin (1926–2007), politician and trade unionist
Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888–1970), modernist poet, journalist, essayist
Alida Valli (1921–2006), film actress
Luigi Zampa, (1905–1991), film director and screenwriter
Riccardo Zanella (1875–1959), Fiuman politician, President of the Free State of Fiume (1921–24)
Israel Zolli (1881–1956), Jewish convert to Catholicism, professor, author
Ivan Dias (1936–2017), Cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay
References
External links
Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe: Cimitero del Verano
GPS coordinates you need to use to find the graves of famous people in the Campo Verano Cemetery
Category:Buildings and structures in Rome Category:Cemeteries and tombs in Rome
