Giuseppe Gioachino Belli

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (died 1863) was born in Rome on 7 September 1791 into a lower-middle-class family. He knew poverty early and lived on office jobs, until his marriage in 1816 to a wealthy widow, Maria Conti, who secured him comfort for a time. He first wrote verse in Italian before turning to the Roman dialect. At the end of his life, he was a censor for the papal government, and he died in Rome on 21 December 1863.

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