In the final AMHS speaker’s program of the year, an enthusiastic audience gathered in Casa Italiana on September 22, 2024, to hear a talk by Italian sculptor, Davide Prete.

Filippo Palizzi was born in the small city of Vasto (population 41,409 in the 2017 Census) on the Adriatic coast in the province of Chieti in the region of Abruzzo, on June 16, 1818. When he was 19, he moved to Naples and enrolled in the Royal Institute of Fine Arts.