People

MANICONE, Michelangelo: Apulian naturalist, born in Vico del Gargano (Foggia) in 1745, died in Ischitella (Foggia) in 1807. He entered the Franciscan order at a very young age and soon became its Provincial. He continued to deal with scientific research and distinguished himself not only in the fields of geology, physical geography, meteorology and botany, but also in agriculture, medicine and history.

The natural phenomena of the Gargano had their first illustrator in him; he was the first to deny the volcanic origin of the sinkholes.

Of his various writings, Fisica Appula (Naples in 1806-7) is remembered. He left a General Statistics of the Capitanata unpublished.

DEL VISCIO, Giuseppe: born in Vico del Gargano (Foggia) in 1859, died 1919, teacher, school inspector, scholar, writer, historian, distinguished archaeologist. He was an authentic researcher, a high-profile scientific figure, but a master, who graduated from the Scuola Normale in Foggia, and who made research his working method. With this method he was able to range from archaeology to natural sciences, to agronomy.

With this method, which was not common in the time in which he lived, Del Viscio was able to investigate the natural history of the Gargano, and was a true scholar in the field of agriculture and its economic and commercial developments.