inhabitant of Bitonto with the help of the bishop Cornelio Musso, redeemed the city giving 66,000 ducats to the Duke of Sessa and to to king of Spain.
Inside the Church there is the funeral slab of Giacomo Rogadeo Ravellese (1230-1305) and there is another slab near the stairs of the building, in memory of Vincenzo Rogadeo (1834-1899), the I Governor of Bari during the Garibaldi period. He was a generous patriot and the Mayor of the city of Bitonto.
The Palace was given by the Admiral Count Rogadeo to the city of Bitonto, in order to transformed it in a Civic Library and in a Museum-Art Gallery.
The Library has 50.000 volums and a lot of them are handwrittens and codexes. There is a little Gospel belonging to XII century. The Library is dedicated to Eustachio Rogadeo, studious of ancient documents.
The Museum has a lot of marks of the traditional life and culture of the town. The arch near the Palace is called arch of Saint Anna and it has a barrel vault with lateral spaces in which there are the coat of arms of the 18 noble families of Bitonto (Bove, Barone, Gentile, Giannone, Guardia, Ilderis, Labini, Padula, Paù, Verità, Sasso, Sylos, Scaraggi, Saluzzi, Rubeis, Regna, Rogadeo, Planelli).
