Tommaso Fazello
Tommaso Fazello was an Italian Dominican friar, historian and antiquarian. He is known as the father of Sicilian history. He is the author of the first printed history of Sicily: De Rebus Siculis Decades Duae, published in Palermo in 1558 in Latin. He was born in Sciacca, Sicily and died in Palermo, Sicily.
He rediscovered the ruins of the ancient Sicilian towns of Akrai, Selinus and Heraclea Minoa. He also rediscovered the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Akragas.
In 1555, he taught at the Convent of San Domenico, Palermo, which later became the University of Palermo.
