Lucini's Funeral Monument by Achille Alberti3D ModelNoAI
Created in 1896 by the sculptor Achille Alberti in memory of Ferdinando Lucini, the work - entitled Sconforto - translates in no uncertain terms the anguish experienced by man in the face of the “solemn and feral stillness of the cemetery”. The composition is completed by a bronze rooster, read by critics as a revealing sign of the new day. Among the deceased buried in the tomb we remember Gian Pietro Lucini (1867-1914), a complex figure of transition in the Italian cultural panorama between the 19th and 20th centuries, known for being one of the first promoters of free verse. Trained in close contact with the Scapigliatura environment, the intellectual became the interpreter of an intolerant and rebellious writing, committed to countering - through a corrosive satire - the asphyxiated Italian post-unification atmosphere, fighting its clichés and ideological backwardness. More info on Monumental Cemetery of Milan website
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