Monument to Belli in the popular quarter of Trastevere, in Rome.

Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (March 7, 1791 - December 21, 1863) was an Italian poet, famous for his sonnets in Romanesco, the dialect of Rome. Logo of the rione Trastevere is rione XIII of Rome, on the west bank of the Tiber, south of Vatican City. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Location within Province of Rome in the Region of Lazio Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers For the Saab automobile, see Saab Sonett, for the Japanese communications company see So-net. ... Romanesco is a group of Romance dialects spoken in Rome and most of the surrounding regions of Lazio, Umbria, central Marche and extreme southern Tuscany in central Italy. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Nickname: The Eternal City Location within Province of Rome in the Region of Lazio Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ...

Biography

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli was born in Rome to a family of the little bourgeoisie. Nickname: The Eternal City Location within Province of Rome in the Region of Lazio Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni Area    - City 1,285 km²  (496. ... bourgeoisie is basically a trem that meens middle class. ...

His father had moved to Civitavecchia, where he was killed by cholera. Belli, with his mother and his two brothers, moved back to Rome, living in a poor house in Via del Corso. Belli began his poetical career initially in Italian, through the incitement of his friend, the poet Francesco Spada. Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio, a sea port on the Tyrrhenian sea, 50 miles WNW of Rome, 42°06N 11°47E. According to the 2003 census, its population was 50,100. ... Cholera (also called Asiatic cholera) is a water-borne disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which is typically ingested by drinking contaminated water, or by eating improperly cooked fish, especially shellfish. ... The northern end of the Via del Corso between the twin churches of Santa Maria in Montesanto (left)and Santa Maria dei Miracoli (right), seen from Piazza del Popolo. ...

After a period of literary employment in poor circumstances, in 1816 his marriage with a woman of means, Maria Conti, enabled him to follow his special vein of literature. The two had a son, Ciro, born in 1824. Belli made some trips to Northern and Central Italy, where he could come in contact with a more evolved literary world, as well with the Enlightenment and revolutionary milieu which was almost totally absent in his native city. Despite the satirical and often anti-clerical views showed by the sonnets, he had defined the Cardinals as "dog-robbers", for example, while Pope Gregory XVI kept "Rome as his inn room", Belli's political ideas remained largely conservative throughout his life. During the democratic rebellion of the Roman Republic of 1849 he defended the rights of the pope. Northern Italy encompasses nine of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Emilia-Romagna Friuli-Venezia Giulia Liguria Lombardia Piemonte Toscana Trentino-Alto Adige Valle dAosta Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Trentino-Alto Adige and Valle dAosta are regions with a special statute. ... Central Italy, encompasses six of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Abruzzo Lazio Marche Molise Toscana Umbria Although the regions of Abruzzo and Molise are geographically located in Central Italy, the European office for statistics (Eurostat) lists these two regions within Southern Italy. ... The Age of Enlightenment refers to either the eighteenth century in European philosophy, or the longer period including the seventeenth century and the Age of Reason. ... The World According To Ronald Reagan, a satirical map by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey Satire is a technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, institutions, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing... A cleric is: A member of the clergy of a religion, especially one that has trained or ordained priests, preachers, or other religious professionals; or A member of a character class in Dungeons & Dragons and similar fantasy role-playing games. ... Francesco Petrarca or Petrarch, one of the best-known of the early Italian sonnet writers For the Saab automobile, see Saab Sonett, for the Japanese communications company see So-net. ... Pope Gregory XVI, OSB (September 18, 1765 – June 1, 1846) born Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari , was Pope from 1831 to 1846. ... Military flag of the Roman Republic. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The current Pope is Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger), who was elected at the age of 78 on 19 April 2005. ...

After the death of his wife in 1837, his economic situation worsened again. In his late years Belli lost much of his vitality, growing an increasing degree of acrimony against the world around him, and variously describing himself as "a dead poet". Consequently, his poetical production became sparser, his last sonnet dating from 1849.

In his later years Belli worked as artistical and political censor for the papal government. Works of which he denied circulation included those of William Shakespeare, Giuseppe Verdi and Gioacchino Rossini. Censorship is basically the editing, removing, or otherwise changing speech and other forms of human expression. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome). ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ...

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Work

Belli is mainly remembered for his vivid popular poetry in the Roman dialect. He produced more than 2,000 sonnets that form an invaluable document of 19th century's papal Rome and the life of its common, humbler people. They were mainly composed in the period 1830-1839. Belli kept them largely hidden, and, just before his death, asked his friend Monsignor Vincenzo Tizzani to burn them. Fortunately, the prelate gave them back to Ciro Belli, who first publishing a selection of them in 1866. The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The current Pope is Benedict XVI (born Joseph Alois Ratzinger), who was elected at the age of 78 on 19 April 2005. ... Look up prelate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The most striking characteristics of Belli's sonnets are the overwhelming humour and the sharp, relentless capability of satirization of common life. Some of the sonnets, moreover, show a particular degree of eroticism. Although full of accuses and denounciations against the corruption of the world of the Roman Church, and of the 19th century Rome in general, Belli's poems has been defined "never unpious". Even his most direct verses do not overcame the boundary of obscenity, favoured by a noteworthy technical mastery and by a sense of realism which was rarely matched in the poetical production of Europe. Eroticism is an aesthetic focused on sexual desire, especially the feelings of anticipation of sexual activity. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and a rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... World map showing Europe Political map (neighbouring countries in Asia and Africa also shown) Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ...

External links

• Virtual Rome describes in detail the "Romanesco" dialect employed by Belli.
• Tutti i sonetti romaneschi and other works by Belli: text, concordances and frequency list