Valente Faustini (and a ‘batusa’) by Oreste Labò, 1929
Giardini Margherita
Via Alberoni
Piacenza, May 2024
“In the Giardini Margherita, in front of the train station, there is a monument to the Piacenza dialect poet, Valente Faustini. A strange monument because it depicts a half-length portrait of the poet celebrated here and a full-length portrait of one of his poetic creations, his most famous: the batusa. A term that could be translated, with all the appropriate approximations, as the brazen one, the impudent one. A young woman who is not afraid of anyone, knows her reasons and intends to assert them. She was (or rather they were, because there were many batusa in Piacenza) a feminist antelitteram, a feminist in the flesh who was alive and well before feminism began to be talked about, not only in Italy, but also in the world.” (The feminist who didn't need male laws, Il Piacenza Blog)
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