“El cagalibri” (The Book Pooper)
Statue of Niccolò Tommaseo by Fancesco Barzaghi
Campo Santo Stefano, San Marco
Venice, September 2012
“Nicolò Tommaseo, the Risorgimento ideologue who was Manin’s right-hand man during the 1848 insurrection, is commemorated by the statue in the middle of Campo Santo Stefano; the unfortunate positioning of the pile of books (representing Tommaseo’s voluminous literary output) has earned the statue the nickname il Cagalibri – the Book-shitter.” (Jonathan Buckley, The Rough Guide to Venice & the Veneto)
2 comments:
It's beautiful.
I like the framework and the white background
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