Monumento a Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Roma Capitale records that Michele Tripisciano (1860-1913) made it in travertine and marble in 1913, the fiftieth anniversary of Belli's death; that Domenico Gnoli and others proposed it to Mayor Nathan in 1910; that it was sited in the Trastevere piazza facing Ponte Garibaldi, then called piazza d'Italia; and that a public subscription reached 30,000 lire. The poet's right hand rests on a reconstruction of the parapet of Ponte Fabricio. The reliefs on the base show the Tiber personified and Pasquino among the populace, and twin fountains carry masks of Poetry and Satire.