Statue of Carlo Porta - Milan, Italy
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N 45° 27.766 E 009° 11.706
32T E 515252 N 5034378
Carlo Porta was an Italian poet, the most famous writer in Milanese (the central dialect of the Western Lombard language).
Waymark Code: WMAR5E
Location: Lombardia, Italy
Date Posted: 02/16/2011
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«Porta was born in June 15, 1775, in Milan to Giuseppe Porta and Violante Gottieri, a merchant family. He studied in Monza until 1792 and then in the Seminario of Milan. In 1796, the Napoleonic Wars pushed Porta to find a job in Venice (where one of his brothers lived) and he remained there until 1799.
From 1804 until his death, Porta worked as clergyman. In 1806, he married to Vincenza Prevosti.
He died in Milan in January 5, 1821 from an attack of gout and was buried in the Church of San Gregorio. His tomb was subsequently lost.
Porta began to write poems in 1790, although few of them were published before 1810.
In 1810, Brindisi de Meneghin all'Ostaria (written for Napoleon's return in Milan) was published. His best season began two years later, with Desgrazzi de Giovannin Bongee ("Troubles of Johnny Bolgeri").
His works can be divided into three categories: works against superstition and religious hypocrisy, descriptions of vivid Milanese popular characters, and political works.
His best works are probably those portraying the Milanese popular life, with the collections Olter desgrazzi de Giovannin Bongee ("Other Troubles of Johnny Bolgeri", 1814), El lament del Marchionn di gamb avert ("The Lament of Melchior the Crippled", 1816) and what is generally considered his masterwork, La Ninetta del Verzee ("Little Nina, from Greens Market", 1815), a meaningful and heartbreaking monologue/confession of a prostitute. In 1816 Porta joined the Romantic literarian movement (Sonettin col covon, "Little sonnet, with a big tail"), obviously in his own way.»
from wikipedia
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