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Your answer was: Giuseppe Belli. |
Answer: Giuseppe Belli is mainly remembered for his vivid popular poetry in the Roman dialect. He produced some 2,279 sonnets that form an invaluable document of the 19th century's papal Rome and the life of its common people. They were mainly composed in the period 1830–1839. Belli kept them largely hidden, apart from his famous recitals before friends such as Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve and Nikolai Gogol and, just before his death, asked his friend Monsignor Vincenzo Tizzani to burn them. Fortunately, the prelate gave them back to Ciro Belli, his son, who when first publishing a selection of them in 1866, severely edited them in order not to offend the taste of the time. 'Giuseppe Gioachino Belli' on RomeTheseSecondTime.blogspot.com  Giuseppe Gioachino Belli Gifted Writer & Poet 150th Anniversary of Death 1527M (2013) |
