Biography of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

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Biography of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Gioachino takes refuge with his mother in Naples where, for a series of events, know the abject poverty. Pope Pius VII returned to power, the father Gaudentius Bacon gets a good position in the Papal Government in Civitavecchia. At the age of thirteen Gioachino is sent to school with the Jesuits at the collegio romano and was soon orphaned of both parents, got modest private and public uses. Around 1810, began his literary career and founded with others the Accademia Tiberina, under the fallen behind local culture, divided between sonetteria and antiquarian taste Arcadian. Twenty-five years he married without love and reluctantly a wealthy widow, Maria Conti, with whom he had an only son, quote. The marriage was indeed advocated by Cardinal Consalvi, a powerful prelate who is an excellent destination for the young handsome, accommodation of which the poet had extreme need. Reached a fair prosperity could thus devote greater commitment to studies and poetry, a period during which he wrote most of his inimitati "Roman Sonnets". He also traveled extensively, in Venice (1817), in Naples (1822), in Florence (1824) and Milan (1827, 1828, 1829), establishing contacts with more advanced cultural environments and discovering some fundamental texts of enlightenment literature is that romantic. In 1828 he resigned from Tiberina and, with a group of liberal friends, open in his house a Cabinet of reading; but after the death of his wife (1837), the Beautiful fallen again into serious economic and moral anguish, as well as losing his hitherto unexhausted poetic vein. From then on, except for a brief period of recovery occurred after the fall of the Roman Republic from him harshly opposed, Belli closes in on a final silence, going as far as to renounce all its previous production, for fear that this this impeding the career of son, used in the Papal administration. For this instructs his friend monsignor Tizzani to destroy it after his death, which takes place in Rome on 21 December 1863. Fortunately, the friend it looked good from carrying out the will of the poet, preserving a priceless heritage of verses and even delivering the corpus of works belliane almost entirely, to the son of him. Quantitatively greater than that in the dialect, but minor, language poetry: the complete Edition, in three volumes, was published only in 1975, under the title "Nice Italian". More interesting are the epistle-rio (letters, 2 vols., 1961; Letters in 1973-74, 2 vols., Carvz), where some of the "black humour" comes to belliano; and the "Zibaldone", a collection of abstracts and indices of works documenting the knowledge of Mukhtar and Italian and foreign, as well as a romantic interest very alive to the realistic literature, including Boccaccio.
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