marcin
(Marcin)
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TRILUSSA
It’s the pseudonym of Carlo Alberto
Salustri, born in Rome in 1871. His mother
was from Bologna and his father, a waiter,
from Albano Laziale. His childhood was
filled with mourning and sadness, but he
was perhaps too small to feel the full brunt
of it. He lost his younger sister Elisabetta at
the age of two and his father at the age of
three. His mother was a seamstress and
somewhat stern with the child, who was a
poor and listless student. At sixteen he
dropped out of school, but had already
written his first verses.
In 1887 one of his poems came out in Il
Rugantino, edited by Gigi Zanazzo, along
with a prose piece signed with the
pseudonym Marco Pepe. He became soon
popular for a series of portraits of Roman