Piazza Trilussa
Trastevere piazza honoring a satirical dialect poet, with a relocated papal fountain.
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This guide to Piazza Trilussa in Trastevere, Rome, follows Carlo Alberto Salustri, known as Trilussa, the Romanesco dialect poet who spent six decades mocking Rome's powerful before the Italian state made him a senator for life weeks before his 1950 death, still broke. You'll hear about his working-class following, his decades-long love for silent-film actress Leda Gys, and how this square, once called Piazza Ponte Sisto, was renamed for him with a bronze half-bust set here in 1954. Read the line from his poem In the Shadow carved into its base.
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