Abstract
Ortona is a pleasant, small seaside town on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, quiet and unpretentious, perhaps even uneventful. Beside the municipio and newly restored theatre stands the civic monument to her proudest son, Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti, many of whose memorabilia are lovingly preserved in the archives of the town’s Istituto Nazionale Tostiano. Like many parts of the Abruzzo that hardly figured in either the humanist Renaissance or the Grand Tour, it remained relatively unknown, isolated from the great cultural centres. From this unassuming background, in the last two decades of the nineteenth century Francesco Paolo Tosti rocketed to international celebrity to an extent that must have been hardly comprehensible to many of Ortona’s citizens. Today, this region still inspires an intense loyalty among its inhabitants, which accounts for the acute sense of betrayal felt by Ortonesi when Tosti took British citizenship. Time has healed this wound, and he has now assumed the status almost of popular hero.
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