Sorrento (Sorrento Neapolitan language) is an Italian town of 16,572 inhabitants in the province of Naples in Campania.
Is located 47 kilometers from the provincial capital, located on the north-west peninsula that is named.
Most probably founded by Greeks, Sorrento suffered the temporary supremacy of the Etruscans and then, from 420 BC, the influence of Oscans. In the Roman period is remembered for their participation insurrection of Italy (90 BC), there was then a colony derived from Silla, followed later an appropriation of veterans of Octavian. Hall was then Menenia tribes. It was a bishopric from at least 420. During the crisis of Byzantine rule in Italy, Sorrento gained autonomy as a duchy, first under the rule of the dukes of Naples, then archons and their dukes, always fighting with Amalfi, Salerno and Saracens.
The history of Sorrento indistinguishable from that of other cities of Campania, and took part in anti-Muslim alloys; fought the Lombards of Benevento; experienced family struggles between the local nobles. Forced in seconds. IX by Guaimario Prince of Salerno to accept as their duke's brother, Guido, the Duchy of Sorrento resumed its autonomy after the latter's death and then lose it for good in 1137, absorbed in the new kingdom of the Normans. Sorrento has since followed the fate of the kingdom, not without conflicts and rebellions, especially early age Aragonese. In 1558 it was captured and sacked by Turks in the winter of 1648 the city valiantly sustained the siege of John Grillo, of the Duke of Guise.
Poche città possono incantare la sua veramente incantevole, romantica, deliziosa, e quanto mai amenissima situazione, quale non può esprimersi con poche parole; anche per ridente e leggiadrissimo promomtorio del suo nome celebre, come per la sua purissima e saluberrima aria, onde fu appellata naturae miracolo e altamente rinomata. Gaetano Moroni
