Edwin Cerio

Edwin Cerio, child of Ignazio, known island doctor, was born in 1875, he studied engineering and architecture and he was graduated in 1898. Collaborator of Krupp that sent him to also work in Germany and in South America became. In March of 1913, having abandoned the offices that Krupp had entrusted to him, he made return in Italy. To 45, after the divorce with his wife Helen, he decided to leave the profession of naval engineer and to devote to the island that so much loved. He began to buy grounds and houses; he accepted, in 1920, from some inhabitants of Capri  the proposal to run to mayor and so in the same year he became the first citizen of Capri. In the arc of his order (1920-23) he tried to protect the island from some Milanese builders that wanted to modify its architectural aspect. One of the most important footsteps against these, it was the organization, in 1922, of a conference for the defence of the landscape. At the end of the conference Cerio created an errand for the control of the constructions on the island, with the purpose to fight too much the construction of modern apartments for the style of the island. In the last years of his life, Cerio added material for the collection of Building founded by Cerio, together from the same and from his brother in memory of his father Ignazio. Edwin Cerio remains today abroad however the only known local writer all. He is remembered, from some island testimonies as a tenacious and intelligent character; man one happy and amiable day and the day later cold and arrogant. It was also a good botanist, collector of antiquity and man of business. Its works assume, whatever field hyphen, sarcastic tones, made exception “Capri in six hundred” (1934), good book containing available information hardly elsewhere. Other works not of small importance are: ”The time in Capri “(1950), “The air in Capri and Flora deprived of Capri” (1939).