Editing Sorrento (section)

==Culture==
[[File:SORVESUV.JPG|thumb|View of [[Vesuvius]] from Sorrento]]

Sorrento has been visited by [[Lord Byron]], [[John Keats]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Richard Wagner]], [[Henrik Ibsen]], and [[Friedrich Nietzsche]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-30 |title=7 facts about Sorrento that might surprise you {{!}} Go Live It Blog |url=https://goliveitblog.com/by-destination/7-facts-about-sorrento-that-might-surprise-you/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820001815/https://goliveitblog.com/by-destination/7-facts-about-sorrento-that-might-surprise-you/ |archive-date=2022-08-20 |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=GO LIVE IT |language=en-US}}</ref> Sorrento was the birthplace of the poet [[Torquato Tasso]], author of the ''Gerusalemme Liberata''.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Tasso, Torquato|volume=26|pages=443–446|first=John Addington|last=Symonds|author-link=John Addington Symonds}}</ref> The town was featured in the early 20th century song "[[Torna a Surriento]]" (Come Back to Sorrento) with lyrics by [[Giambattista De Curtis]], brother of the song's composer, [[Ernesto De Curtis]]. 

In the 1920s, famous Soviet writer [[Maxim Gorky]] lived in Sorrento.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Delgado |first=Yolanda |date=2014-07-13 |title=The final days of Russian writers: Maxim Gorky |url=https://www.rbth.com/literature/2014/07/13/the_final_days_of_russian_writers_maxim_gorky_38129.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230424084518/https://www.rbth.com/literature/2014/07/13/the_final_days_of_russian_writers_maxim_gorky_38129.html |archive-date=2023-04-24 |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=Russia Beyond |language=en-US}}</ref>

Songs that have featured Surrento prominently have included "Torna a Surriento" and "Caruso", a song composed in Sorrento, in the summer of 1985, by the Bolognese singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla, whose fifty-years ties with Sorrento are described in the novel by the Sorrentine writer, Raffaele Lauro, titled "Caruso The Song - Lucio Dalla and Sorrento", which was released in December 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sorrentotheromance.com/news/38/caruso-the-song-di-raffaele-lauro-la-biografia-interiore-di-lucio-dalla-attraverso-il-suo-capolavoro-e-il-suo-legame-con-sorrento.html |title="Caruso The Song" di Raffaele Lauro: la biografia interiore di Lucio Dalla attraverso il suo capolavoro e il suo legame con Sorrento |publisher=Sorrento The Romance |date=2017-06-15 |access-date=2017-07-11 |archive-date=2018-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928175433/http://www.sorrentotheromance.com/news/38/caruso-the-song-di-raffaele-lauro-la-biografia-interiore-di-lucio-dalla-attraverso-il-suo-capolavoro-e-il-suo-legame-con-sorrento.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Enjoy our Amalfi Coast tours with Sorrento limousine service |url=https://sorrentocoastlimo.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221051255/http://sorrentocoastlimo.com/ |archive-date=2017-02-21 |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=sorrentocoastlimo.com |language=en}}</ref>

The local football team is [[Football Club Sorrento]] that plays at the [[Stadio Italia]], and currently plays in the [[Eccellenza Campania]] of the [[Italian Football League]].