biography
| name: |
Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino
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pronunciation:
[baylee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1791–1863)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Rome, Latium, Italy. He was a civil servant in the Papal States' government, and one of the founders of the Accademia Tiberina (Academy of the Tiber). His 2279 Sonetti in Roman dialect (1830–47) are written from the point of view of the Roman populace, whose everyday life they describe in a tone at times ironic, at times bitter and sarcastic, and are a satirical indictment of Roman theocracy. Underlying them is a current of fatalistic pessimism about man's destiny. Belli meant them to be destroyed, but some of them were published just after his death, and in full in 1952. |
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