>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8504936/Italians-evacuate-Rome-over-big-one-fears.html

Well the articles I read (I read them first in an Argentinean newspaper, but it was almost identical as the link on Tc's link) never say if he just said that there would be a quake in Italy, but for what it says here it also predicted the place?

Mr Bendandi, a self-taught scientist, had foreseen the quake, registering a statement with a notary on November 1923 that it would strike on January 2.

Although he was two days off, the Corriere della Sera newspaper splashed him on its front page, naming him: “The man who predicts earthquakes”.

Mr Bendandi, who died in 1979, never provided any scientific proof for his theory that the movements of the moon and sun, as well as other planets in the solar system, exert a gravitational influence on the movements of the earth’s crust.

However, he became hugely famous in Italy for the accuracy of his predictions. He predicted the earthquake of January 13, 1915 which killed 30,000 people in Avezzano.

He also forecast the quake of May 6, 1976 in Friuli which killed 1,000 and left another 45,000 homeless.

Not that I will believe in him anyways, as I said before.