
Set against the chequered background of Rome, 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.



The nineteenth-century Italian poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, a native and livelong resident of Rome, wrote i the Romanesco dialect of the working people of trastevere, a small area formed by a loop in the Tevere.
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