Letterio Subba

He returned to his birthplace in 1823 and its city council authorised him to open a drawing and painting school near the Regia Accademia Carolina.

The Bourbon government later made him director of the university's Scuola di belle Arti, attended by a whole generation of artists from the city.

In 1848 he took part in the Revolt of Messina, but it failed, forcing him to flee to Malta, leaving the Scuola di belle Arti in the hands of Michele Panebianco.

Another, Blind Daphnis Among the Shepherds, is in the Agostino Gallo collection in the Galleria regionale della Sicilia in Palermo.

He was particularly active in religious art: His sculptures included: He also headed the restoration of Alonzo Rodriguez's major fresco of the Last Supper from the refectory of the convento di Santa Maria di Gesù Inferiore and housed in the sala della Giunta of Messina's town hall.