Team

Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli, Founder, is an architect and farmer, born in Washington, D.C. to Italian diplomat parents, and raised in Italy and abroad. He holds a degree from Sapienza University Rome, studied at Politecnico, Milan, and has been the steward of a baronial family with properties in Sicily, near Catania, since his teens. Giuseppe’s knowledge of plants and people is vast. Under his guidance, Agricola Due Leoni has come to be a respected practitioner in the field of sustainable farming.

Cornelia Lauf, Curator, holds a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and has worked internationally in areas including publishing, textile research, and the conceptual aspects of artistic authorship. Cornelia curates the projects with artists for Agricola Due Leoni.

Our local technical providers are Ecofattorie Sabine, Poggio Mirteto Scalo; Edil 97, Poggio Mirteto; Azienda Stefano Facioni, Poggio Mirteto; Food & Beverage, Poggio Mirteto; Il Frantoio di Galloni e Bettucci P., Montopoli di Sabina; Immobiliare Sabina, Poggio Mirteto; Vivaio Frappetta, Montelibretti. 

We gratefully acknowledge support over the years, by Stefano and Loredana Avarvarei, Andrei Avarvarei, Rachael Barraclough, Hannah Bernstein, Rose Beaumont, Susannah Bosanquet, Pamela Breda, Gianluca Bruni, Domitilla Calamai, Marella Caracciolo, Mario Ciaramitaro, Emilio Corti, Cristiano Croci, Alice e Marco Di Pietro, Johannah Lina Dittmer, Ihsan Barış Gedizlioğlu, Oberto Gili, Hanna Hildebrand, Ada Jungk, Talya Kerman-Chan, Noëma and Kliò Kosuth, Carolina Liu, Karolina Liusikova, Sophie McAlpine, Luanne McLoughlin, Toma and Alice Moniz, Ruby Perkins, Flavia Prestininzi, Mauro Remondino, Magda Rumbaut, Giulia Scarsella, Maria Vittoria di Sabatino, Maria Giovanna Virga, Shara Wasserman, Katrin Wosnitzka, and many others.

North American Liaison: William Hearst Sullivan, landscape designer and artist, based in Washington, D.C. .