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Item Details
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SONNETS
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| By: |
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847490409 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847490407 |
| Publisher: |
ONEWORLD CLASSICS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
21 December, 2007 |
| Series: |
Connoisseur |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Description: |
Set against the chequered background of the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli'' poems deal with life''s elementals. This selection of poems represent people from every course and manner of life - housewives, mothers, beggars, lovers, popes, thieves, gossips and more. |
| Synopsis: |
Writing clandestine sonnets in local dialect for over fifteen years whilst leading a respectably conformist life of letters and bureaucracy, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli erected a lasting poetical monument to the people of nineteenth-century Rome. Set against the chequered background of the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals: love, death, sex, food, money, family, religion and politics. In his immense oeuvre, sampled here in a sizeable and varied selection of the best poems, people from every course and manner of life have their say - housewives, mothers, beggars, lovers, businessmen, popes, whores, doctors, thieves, lawyers, priests, pen-pushers, actresses, gossips and many more. Their voices and preoccupations are brilliantly and accurately rendered in this volume. |
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