Prominent People (Emilia-Romagna/Trentino-Alto Adige

Question 1

Mario Emilio Lepido

Answer 1

Built the Via Emilia road the connecting Piacenza in the west to Rimini on the Adriatic. became a major trade route and gave the name to the area

Question 2

Edmund Mach (Tren)

Answer 2

First director of Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adage agricultural school and research center and founder of Agrarian Institute. Institute became a model of best practices. First school of viticulture and enology in Trentino and one of first in Italy

Question 3

Elisabetta Foradori

Answer 3

1980 showed potential of Teroldego grape with massal selection (“old way” or replanting of new vineyards with wood taken from exceptional old vineyards vs. use of vine clones) lower yields and Guyot training