Piazza Giuseppe Gioachino Belli On December 21st 1863, the Roman poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli died. Belli was famous for his sonnets, which he penned in Romanesco, the local dialect. In the district of Trastevere, in a piazza which bears his name, stands a monument (1913) to Belli, the work of the Sicilian sculptor Michele Tripisciano (1860-1913). Belli wrote more than 2,000 sonnets about the ordinary people of his native city in romanesco, the dialect of Rome. The monument, which comprises a fountain, was financed by popular subscription and erected to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the poet's death. Comments are closed.
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