Salama da sugo, also known as salamina da sugo, is a particular salami made of pork typical of the province of Ferrara consumed after cooking. It is recognised with the PGI and PDO designations of origin.
Salama da sugo
Renzo Ravenna was an Italian lawyer and politician. He belonged to a prominent Jewish family in Ferrara and was, with Enrico Paolo Salem in Trieste, one of only two Fascist mayors of Jewish origin in Italy before the introduction of the racial laws.
The six Ravenna brothers in 1908. Standing, back, from left: Renzo (1893 - 1961), Gino (1889 - Auschwitz 1944), Alba (1891 - Auschwitz 1944); foreground: Margherita (1885 - Auschwitz 1944), Lina (1896 - 1970) and Bianca (1886 - 1944).
Ariostea Square in Ferrara. The Ravenna family moved to a house on Corso Porta Mare across from it in 1898, after having lived in Via Vittoria in the ghetto for generations.
Italo Balbo
Epigraph commemorating Cesare Battisti's speech in Ferrara, November 27, 1914. Inviting the Trentino irredentist was the then 21-year-old Renzo Ravenna, future mayor of the city.