Following the earthquake that destroyed Catania and the Val di Noto in 1693 , Giuseppe Asmundo was one of the leaders of urban and cultural rebirth in the affected areas . In Catania , among other works , he rebuilt the girls ' school Conservatorio delle Verginelle as a refuge for needy orphan girls and contributed , through the prior Bartolomeo Asmundo , to the construction of the church of the Immacolata Concezione ai Minoritelli . In Noto , he was the commissioner general for reconstruction . Together with Giuseppe Lanza ( vicar general for the Val di Noto ) , Giovanni Montalto , Sipione Coppola , and the Jesuit architect Angelo Italia , he was one of the architects of the form of renaissance that took the name Sicilian Baroque
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1693 Sicily earthquake
Asmundo family