Born in Penne, Abruzzo, he took a degree in medicine and surgery and practiced the profession for a short time.
Picciano is first mentioned in 1049 when Bernardo Earl of Penne, with the Charta Offersionis, gave fields and buildings to build a Benedictine abbey in its hills.
Alessandro de' Medici (July 22, 1510 – January 6, 1537) called "il Moro" ("the Moor"), Duke of Penne and also Duke of Florence (from 1532), was ruler of Florence from 1530 until 1537.
The film features the song "Penne" sung by British Singer Susheela Raman.
The assets were subject to the diocese of Penne, subject to the abby of San Giovanni de Venere (in Fossacesia), and by 1140, 48 families count themselves as residents.
Paula Franzese, an American law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, has asserted that her father Luigi Franzese, born in Naples, Italy in 1931, devised the first version of penne alla vodka, which he called penne alla Russa because of the addition of the vodka to his tomato and cream sauce base.
The band was most recently featured in a 2010 episode of Food Network's Giada at Home, entitled "Dinner With the Band", in which Giada De Laurentiis throws the a dinner party, serving bibb lettuce salads, penne with braised short ribs, and apple shandys.