{"id":49425,"date":"2020-02-29T03:32:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/?p=49425"},"modified":"2020-02-29T03:32:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T02:32:14","slug":"meet-romes-most-famous-poet-giuseppe-gioachino-belli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/meet-romes-most-famous-poet-giuseppe-gioachino-belli\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Rome\u2019s Most Famous Poet: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Meet Rome\u2019s Most Famous Poet: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli<\/h2><div id=\"disco-939799849\" class=\"disco-social-pug-2019 disco-entity-placement\"><p><div  class=\"dpsp-shortcode-wrapper dpsp-shape-rounded dpsp-size-medium dpsp-column-auto dpsp-has-spacing dpsp-has-buttons-count dpsp-show-on-mobile dpsp-button-style-6\"><ul class=\"dpsp-networks-btns-wrapper dpsp-networks-btns-share dpsp-networks-btns-content dpsp-column-auto \" style=\"padding:0;margin:0;list-style-type:none\">\n<li class=\"dpsp-network-list-item dpsp-network-list-item-facebook\" style=\"float:left\">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverwalks.com%2Fblog%2Fmeet-romes-most-famous-poet-giuseppe-gioachino-belli%2F&#038;t=Meet%20Rome%E2%80%99s%20Most%20Famous%20Poet%3A%20Giuseppe%20Gioachino%20Belli\" class=\"dpsp-network-btn dpsp-facebook dpsp-first dpsp-has-label\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" style=\"font-size:14px;padding:0rem;max-height:40px\" >\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon \">\n\t\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon-inner\" ><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 18 32\"><path d=\"M17.12 0.224v4.704h-2.784q-1.536 0-2.080 0.64t-0.544 1.92v3.392h5.248l-0.704 5.28h-4.544v13.568h-5.472v-13.568h-4.544v-5.28h4.544v-3.904q0-3.328 1.856-5.152t4.96-1.824q2.624 0 4.064 0.224z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-label\">Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li class=\"dpsp-network-list-item dpsp-network-list-item-pinterest\" style=\"float:left\">\n\t<button rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.discoverwalks.com%2Fblog%2Fmeet-romes-most-famous-poet-giuseppe-gioachino-belli%2F&#038;media=&#038;description=Meet%20Rome%E2%80%99s%20Most%20Famous%20Poet%3A%20Giuseppe%20Gioachino%20Belli\" class=\"dpsp-network-btn dpsp-pinterest dpsp-last dpsp-has-label\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Save to Pinterest\" title=\"Save to Pinterest\" style=\"font-size:14px;padding:0rem;max-height:40px\" >\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon \">\n\t\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-icon-inner\" ><svg version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" viewBox=\"0 0 23 32\"><path d=\"M0 10.656q0-1.92 0.672-3.616t1.856-2.976 2.72-2.208 3.296-1.408 3.616-0.448q2.816 0 5.248 1.184t3.936 3.456 1.504 5.12q0 1.728-0.32 3.36t-1.088 3.168-1.792 2.656-2.56 1.856-3.392 0.672q-1.216 0-2.4-0.576t-1.728-1.568q-0.16 0.704-0.48 2.016t-0.448 1.696-0.352 1.28-0.48 1.248-0.544 1.12-0.832 1.408-1.12 1.536l-0.224 0.096-0.16-0.192q-0.288-2.816-0.288-3.36 0-1.632 0.384-3.68t1.184-5.152 0.928-3.616q-0.576-1.152-0.576-3.008 0-1.504 0.928-2.784t2.368-1.312q1.088 0 1.696 0.736t0.608 1.824q0 1.184-0.768 3.392t-0.8 3.36q0 1.12 0.8 1.856t1.952 0.736q0.992 0 1.824-0.448t1.408-1.216 0.992-1.696 0.672-1.952 0.352-1.984 0.128-1.792q0-3.072-1.952-4.8t-5.12-1.728q-3.552 0-5.952 2.304t-2.4 5.856q0 0.8 0.224 1.536t0.48 1.152 0.48 0.832 0.224 0.544q0 0.48-0.256 1.28t-0.672 0.8q-0.032 0-0.288-0.032-0.928-0.288-1.632-0.992t-1.088-1.696-0.576-1.92-0.192-1.92z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"dpsp-network-label\">Pin<\/span><\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I got off an airplane at Milan Malpensa Airport for my very first visit to Italy, I was determined to learn Italian. My first sentences in the language were funny. As a Latina, I was using my mother tongue Portuguese as well as everything I know in Spanish and French to create sentences that I could just hope to make sense in Italian. Many embarrassing attempts later, I was actually feeling pretty confident about my progress. I thought I was rocking it.<\/p>\n<p>But then I left northern Italy and headed to Rome, where I thought Italian would be as by-the-book as possible. I had never been more wrong. From the minute I arrived, I noticed that many of the sentences I was so sure about sounded much different when coming out of the mouths of native Romans. Needless to say, my confidence went down the drain and I started questioning everything I thought I already knew in Italian.<\/p>\n<p>How relieved I felt when I found out these sentences sounded so different to me because they were actually not in Italian! They were in Romanesco, a medieval dialect derivative of Italian and Tuscan, spoken until today in Rome\u2019s metropolitan area. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>The dialect is so rich and so characteristic to the Roman culture that it deserves an exclusive article about it. For now, let\u2019s just focus on one particular discovery I made once I knew Romanesco existed on the map: <strong>Giuseppe Gioachino Belli<\/strong>, Rome\u2019s most famous poet!<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard about Belli before getting to the Eternal City, I have to confess. However, once I acknowledged the existence of the dialect, the Roman poet just came along with it in a gift wrap. The more research I made about Romanesco, the more his name appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Belli turned Romanesco into pure art through his sonnets; many of the finest literature pieces using the dialect are his. More than that, he documented the life of 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century papal Rome in such a unique way that reading his poems made me see the city with totally different eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He was my Pandora box, but instead of releasing evil, he unlocked aspects of the capital city that I didn\u2019t know and couldn\u2019t even dream about. A Romanesco-History box, I may say, to which I only gained access by noticing \u201cItalian\u201d was not quite the same in Rome.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49431\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/43228604124_52e15f5f8b_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/43228604124_52e15f5f8b_c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/43228604124_52e15f5f8b_c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/43228604124_52e15f5f8b_c-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/43228604124_52e15f5f8b_c-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monument (1913) to Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (Rome 1791-Rome 1863) by Michele Tripisciano in Rome. Photo taken by Carlo Raso, uploaded on Flickr. Public Domain Mark 1.0.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>The tragic youth of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Giuseppe Francesco Antonio Maria Gioachino Raimondo Belli, known as \u201cjust\u201d Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, was born on September 7<sup>th<\/sup> 1791 in Rome to a Christian family of lower bourgeoisie status.<\/p>\n<p>When Rome was occupied by France in 1798, Belli\u2019s father, the papal accountant Gaudenzio Belli, had all his possessions confiscated, while one of his cousins, Gennaro Valentini, who was a general to the Bourbon army, was shot dead by French authorities at Piazza Montecitorio after being accused of treason.<\/p>\n<p>Given the situation, the family sought refuge in Naples, where they faced a period of hardship. They returned to the Eternal City in 1800, when the Papal States were briefly restored. In that same year, Belli\u2019s father was appointed to a well-paid role at the coastal city of Civitavecchia, 60 kilometers away from Rome, to where the whole family relocated.<\/p>\n<p>They didn\u2019t stay there for long, though. In 1802, Belli\u2019s father died of either cholera or typhus, and his mother, the Neapolitan Luigia Mazio, moved back to Rome with him and his siblings, Carlo and Flaminia. Without Gaudenzio\u2019s income, the family lived in cheap lodgings at Via del Corso, at the city\u2019s historical center.<\/p>\n<p>In 1806, his mother remarried. She died the next year, leaving her three children to the care of their paternal uncles. Tragedy struck Belli\u2019s life once more in 1809, when his brother died at the age of 18.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Belli\u2019s adulthood and literature<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Following the rapid series of unfortunate events, Flaminia became a nun while Belli worked at several precarious jobs, which forced him to abandon his studies at the prestigious Collegio Romano.<\/p>\n<p>In 1812, at the age of 21, he had the opportunity to work at the Palazzo Poli as the secretary to Prince Stanislaus Poniatowsky, nephew of the King of Poland. In that same year, he also joined l\u2019Accademia degli Elleni, a pro-French institute founded in 1805, where he began to introduce himself to Rome\u2019s cultural scene.<\/p>\n<p>In 1813, after a split in the pro-French Accademia, Belli co-founded l&#8217;Accademia Tiberina, whose objective was to promote rhetorical studies in the city. He was also fired from the Palazzo Poli after unclear disagreements with the prince\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>Belli\u2019s life finally made a 180\u00b0 turn in 1816, at the age of 25, when he married the wealthy widow Maria Conti, with whom he had only one child, Ciro, born in 1824.<\/p>\n<p>His new social status as a rich man enabled him to focus on his literature skills, which were vividly praised and encouraged by his friend and fellow poet Francesco Spada. After some trips to northern and central Italy, his poetry was greatly influenced by the revolutionary environment and the Enlightenment movement which were almost inexistent in Rome at the time of his travels.<\/p>\n<p>In Milan, he was inspired by the dialect poetry and satire of Carlo Porta, the most famous writer in Milanese dialect. From Porta, he acquired the model he needed to start writing in his own local dialect, Romanesco.<\/p>\n<p>Following his wife\u2019s death in 1837, Belli found himself once again in a critic economic situation, which negatively affected his mental health and literature production \u2013 the former being officially halted in 1849, when he wrote his last sonnet in dialect.<\/p>\n<p>Not being able to afford a life dedicated to poetry anymore, he spent his last years working as a censor for the Roman Catholic Church. Despite having spent his life writing satiric poems about the Church, he was most likely granted his final position as censor due to his support to the rights of the Pope during the democratic rebellion of the Roman Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Describing himself as a \u201cdead poet\u201d, Belli asked his friend Monsignor Vincenzo Tizzani to burn most of his Romanesco pieces just before his death. He died in Rome in 1863, at the age of 72, from a stroke. Fortunately for us, Tizzani did not follow his instructions and gave his poems back to his son, Ciro Belli.<\/p>\n<p>In 1866, Ciro published the first selection of Romanesco sonnets written by his father, which granted Belli enormous posthumous prestige.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Belli\u2019s sophisticated sonnets in Romanesco dialect<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_49429\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/800px-nove-bone.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/800px-nove-bone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/800px-nove-bone.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/800px-nove-bone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/800px-nove-bone-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An advertisement in the Rome metro featuring a slogan in Romanesco. Photo by Gaucho, uploaded at it.wikipedia.\u00a0\/ CC BY-SA (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Giuseppe Gioachino Belli mastered Standard Italian, a skill that not everyone possessed at his time. Recently published letters written by him in Italian are impressive examples of his intelligence and high command of the language.<\/p>\n<p>However, little attention is given to the poems he wrote in Italian. It was his dialect poetry that, once published, made his fame. His humorous way of describing the day-to-day life in the early 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century papal Rome, his sharp satires targeting the cleric, his soft eroticism, those were all elements that contributed to make his poems popular. His craftiness and superior ability to play with the rhythm and metrics of the Petrarchan sonnet also contributed to put his name among those of the greatest dialect poets that ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>One of his most famous sonnets is &#8220;The Sovrans of the Old World&#8221;, written in 1831 and often listed as number 361 or 362 in the collection <em>Sonetti romaneschi<\/em>. In this sonnet, Belli sheds light on the power functions of the Roman society at his time. A largely diffused translation of this poem (which I will share bellow) was made by Peter Nicholas Dale, who translated the poem from Romanesco to \u201cStrine\u201d, an English dialect spoken in his Native Australia. His translation of this sonnet turns out to be more popular than others in Standard English. Try it out:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original: Li soprani der monno vecchio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>C&#8217;era una vorta un Re cche ddar palazzo<\/em><br \/>\n<em>mann\u00f2 ffora a li popoli st&#8217;editto:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Io s\u00f2 io, e vvoi nun zete un cazzo,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sori vassalli bbugiaroni, e zzitto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Io fo ddritto lo storto e storto er ddritto:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>p\u00f2zzo v\u00e9nneve a ttutti a un tant&#8217;er mazzo:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Io, si vve fo impicc\u00e0 nun ve strapazzo,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>ch\u00e9 la vita e la robba Io ve l&#8217;affitto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chi abbita a sto monno senza er titolo<\/em><br \/>\n<em>o dde Papa, o dde Re, o dd&#8217;Imperatore,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>quello nun p\u00f2 av\u00e9 mmai vosce in capitolo!&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Co st&#8217;editto ann\u00f2 er Boja per ccuriero,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>interroganno tutti in zur tenore;<\/em><br \/>\n<em>e arisposeno tutti: &#8220;\u00c8 vvero, \u00e8 vvero!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cStrine\u201d translation: The Sovrans of the Old World<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Wunce upon a time from his palatial hall a king<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pud an edict out f\u2019ris peoples ut sed: \u201cHey yu chaps!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m me, got it?, an yu lot ain\u2019 wirth a fucken thing,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ya bunch a slaven arseholes: so shutcha traps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I get the strait ta bend over, an I straiten up the bent,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I can hock the lottayez f\u2019ra bob or two adda throw:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>An if get yez hanged id ain\u2019 crueldy: \u2019cos, ya know,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Life an properdy\u2019s jus stuff I pud up fa rent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Anywun on this planet, if he ain\u2019t a King,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Or if he lacks a title like \u2018Emp\u2019ra\u2019 or \u2018Pope\u2019,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That fellah can\u2019 ever have a say in anything.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>His hangman wen\u2019 out with the edict ta size up folks\u2019 views<\/em><br \/>\n<em>N\u2019 grilled ev\u2019rywun as t\u2019w its tenor, fa the inside dope,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>N\u2019 t\u2019wa man they all ansered back: \u201cIt\u2019s true. Yep, it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool, right? But now, let me give you a taste of his poetry in Standard English.<\/p>\n<p>Something I particularly like about Balli\u2019s poetry is that it also describes several historic sites and legends from the city, such as the Mouth of Truth, an enigmatic 1300-kilogram marble mask believed to bite off the hand of those who tell a lie while with their hand inside of its mouth. You can find the original and translated versions of the sonnet \u201cThe mouth of truth\u201d bellow:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original: La bocca de-la-verita<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>In d&#8217;una chiesa sopra a &#8216;na piazzetta<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Un po&#8217; ppi\u00f9 ss\u00f9 de Piazza Montanara<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pe la strada che pporta a la Salara,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>C&#8217;\u00e8 in nell&#8217;entr\u00e0 una cosa benedetta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pe ttutta Roma quant&#8217;\u00e8 larga e stretta<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nun poterai trov\u00e0 cosa ppi\u00f9 rara.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00c8 una faccia de pietra che tt&#8217;impara<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Chi ha detta la buc\u00eca, chi nu l&#8217;ha detta.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>S&#8217;io mo a sta faccia, c&#8217;ha la bocca uperta,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Je ce metto una mano, e nu la striggne<\/em><br \/>\n<em>La verit\u00e0 da me ttiella pe certa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ma ssi fficca la mano uno in buc\u00eca,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00c8ssi sicuro che a tir\u00e0 n\u00e9 a spiggne<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Quella mano che l\u00ec nun vi\u00e8 ppi\u00f9 via.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>English translation: The mouth of truth<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>In a church, in a small square<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Shortly after Montanara Square,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Along the road leading to the salt-works,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>As soon as you enter there&#8217;s something holy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In all Rome far and wide<\/em><br \/>\n<em>You could not find something as rare as that.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s a face of stone, which tells<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who is a liar and who is not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If in the mouth of this statue, which is open,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I insert my hand and it does not clasp it,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Consider my truth as most reliable.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But if a liar inserts his hand<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Be sure that, push or pull,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>That hand won&#8217;t come out.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b.jpg 924w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/1470680268_aeb4974d78_b-816x543.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 0.9rem;font-style: italic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65642485@N00\/1470680268\">&#8220;DSC_4328&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65642485@N00\">kyriazis<\/a> is licensed under <a style=\"margin-right: 5px\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=html\">CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><a style=\"display: inline-block;margin-top: 2px;margin-left: 3px;height: 22px !important\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/?ref=ccsearch&amp;atype=html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: inherit;margin-right: 3px;display: inline-block\" src=\"https:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/static\/img\/cc_icon.svg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: inherit;margin-right: 3px;display: inline-block\" src=\"https:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/static\/img\/cc-by_icon.svg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: inherit;margin-right: 3px;display: inline-block\" src=\"https:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/static\/img\/cc-nc_icon.svg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"height: inherit;margin-right: 3px;display: inline-block\" src=\"https:\/\/search.creativecommons.org\/static\/img\/cc-nd_icon.svg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for Belli\u2019s work criticizing the cleric, my absolute favorite is the one where he satirizes the traditions of the nuns of San Pietro e Marcellino&#8217;s church, named \u201cThe vow\u201d. \u00a0What I like about this sonnet is not just how acid it is, but mainly what it has taught me. Thanks to Belli, I learned something very specific about a group of nuns that I didn\u2019t know about, who belonged to a church that I didn\u2019t know that existed. Right to the point quenching my thirst for history!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original: Er voto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Senti st&#8217;antra. A Ssan Pietro e Marcellino<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Ce stanno certe moniche befane,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>C&#8217;aveveno pe voto er contentino<\/em><br \/>\n<em>De maggn\u00e0 ttutto-quanto co le mane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Vedi si una forchetta e un cucchiarino,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Si un cortelluccio pe ttajacce er pane,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Abbi da offenne Iddio! N&#8217;antro tantino<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Leccaveno cor muso com&#8217;er cane!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pio Ottavo per\u00f2, bona-momoria,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Che vedde una matina quer porcaro,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Je disse: &#8220;Madre, e che v\u00f2 d\u00ec sta storia?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sete state avvezzate ar monnezzaro?!<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Che voto! un cazzo. A dio p\u00f2 dasse groria<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Puro co la forchetta e cor cucchiaro&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>English translation: The vow<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Listen to this one. At San Pietro e Marcellino&#8217;s church<\/em><br \/>\n<em>There are such nasty nuns,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who, as a vow, had the bad habit<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Of eating food using their bare hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Just imagine if a fork and a spoon,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A small knife for cutting bread,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Could be an offence to God! They almost<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Licked the dish like dogs!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But the late Pius the Eighth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Who one day saw that filth,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Told them: &#8220;Mother, what does all this mean?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have you been brought up in a dump?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Damn that vow! God can be praised<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Although using a fork and a spoon&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49435\" style=\"width: 1546px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49435\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.discoverwalks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/monti_-_santi_marcellino_e_pietro_01680-816x1088.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Pietro e Marcellino&#8217;s church. Photo by Lalupa, uploaded at WikiCommons \/ CC BY-SA (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hope this article has inspired you to read more of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli\u2019s sonnets. Before I leave, I would like to share one more sonnet, though \u2013 just one more, I promise! I wouldn\u2019t be making a fair introduction between you and him if I hadn\u2019t shared at least one poem where he exposes his principals, would I?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original: L\u2019aducazzione<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fijo, nun ribbart\u00e0 mai tata tua:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Abbada a tte, nun te f\u00e0 mette sotto.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Si quarchiduno te vi\u00e8 a d\u00e0 un cazzotto,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>L\u00ec callo callo tu dajene dua.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Si ppoi quarcantro porcaccio da ua<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Te ce facessi un po&#8217; de predicotto<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dije: &#8220;De ste raggione io me ne fotto:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Iggnuno penzi a li fattacci sua&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Quanno giuchi un bucale a mora, o a boccia,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bevi fijo; e a sta gente buggiarona<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Nun gnene f\u00e0 rest\u00e0 manco una goccia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>D&#8217;esse cristiano \u00e8 ppuro cosa bona:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Pe questo hai da port\u00e0 ssempre in zaccoccia<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Er cortello arrotato e la corona.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>English translation: Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My son, never do wrong to your daddy,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Take care, don&#8217;t let yourself be subdued.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>If someone ever hits you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Straight away you hit him twice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And if any other bastard<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tries to lecture you,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Tell him: &#8220;I don&#8217;t care a damn about these reasons:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Everyone mind his own business&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When you bet a jug of wine playing morra, or bowls,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Drink, my son; and don&#8217;t let these fools<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Have a single drop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To be a Christian is another good thing:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>For this reason always keep in your pocket<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A sharpened knife and a rosary.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"disco-3263142051\" class=\"disco-amazon-box-2024 disco-entity-placement\"><div style=\"width: 100%; border: 2px solid lightgray; padding: 3% 6% 3% 3%; border-radius: 5px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Planning a trip to Â鶹APP ? 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