Tomacelli family

Family of Neapolitan origins rooted in the society of Tropea with an important role in local commissions

The Tomacelli family were originally from Naples where they are recorded in the noble seat of Capuana since at least the thirteenth century. The family is known to have been in Tropea by the sixteenth century. It is likely that their presence was linked to the figure of Leonardo, governor of the county of Borrello and of the principality of Rossano at the end of the fifteenth century, and later an important tax official for the provinces of Calabria. 

He was the grandson of the famous humanist Antonio Beccadelli, known as the Panormite, and the son of Nicola Tomacelli, who had been governor of Miletus. Evidence of the interests and prestige of the Tomacelli family in Tropea can be found in the decoration of the family chapel of San Bartolomeo, in the church of the Immaculate Conception, and the in the construction of the church and the convent of the Sanità by Caterina Tomacelli.