GIUSEPPE GIOACHINO BELLI
\d͡ʒˈɪjuːsˌɛp d͡ʒɪə͡ʊt͡ʃˈiːnə͡ʊ bˈɛli], \dʒˈɪjuːsˌɛp dʒɪəʊtʃˈiːnəʊ bˈɛli], \dʒ_ˈɪ_j_uː_s_ˌɛ_p dʒ_ɪ__əʊ_tʃ_ˈiː_n_əʊ b_ˈɛ_l_i]\
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A noted Roman humorist and satirical poet (1791-1863). He wrote in the popular dialect of the Trastevere; and in early life scourged with stinging, irreverent, and often vulgar satire, the tyranny of the popes and the scandalous lives of the clergy. Becoming afterward a zealous convert to the faith of the Roman Church, he endeavored to call in and destroy the wicked indiscretions of his youth. In his last years he published a beautiful translation of the Roman Breviary. His published sonnets amount to more than 2,000; his other published Italian verses fill four considerable volumes; while two thirds of his vast remains have never been gathered and edited. Of this last, much is clothed in language too coarse to bear the light of modern culture.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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