{"id":70192,"date":"2023-07-03T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/?page_id=70192"},"modified":"2023-07-03T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T09:53:51","slug":"monument-to-gaius-valerius-catullus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/what-to-see\/art-and-monuments\/monumenti-alla-memoria\/monument-to-gaius-valerius-catullus\/","title":{"rendered":"Monument to Gaius Valerius Catullus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Piazza Giosu\u00e8 Carducci, Sirmione<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lRu31\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The <strong>Monument to Gaius Valerius Catullus<\/strong> was commissioned in 1935 by Luigi Trojani, podest\u00e0 of Sirmione, to the Clodoveo Barzaghi artistic foundry in Milan, with the assistance of the sculptor Pompilio Villarubbia Norri.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The bust is dedicated to the famous Roman poet (Verona, 84 BC &#8211; Rome, 54 BC) who lived in Sirmione, known for the intensity of the amorous passions expressed in his verses.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The poem 31 by Catullus (84-54 BC) recalls the poet&#8217;s happy return to his home in Sirmione.<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">The pass, which attests to the presence of a property belonging to the wealthy Veronese family of the Valerii, to which Catullo belonged, has been associated with the imposing remains of the so-called &#8220;Grotte di Catullo&#8221; since the 15th century, so much so that the denomination has become<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">common use although it was certainly built after the poet&#8217;s death.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catullus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piazza Giosu\u00e8 Carducci, Sirmione The Monument to Gaius Valerius Catullus was commissioned in 1935 by Luigi Trojani, podest\u00e0 of Sirmione, to the Clodoveo Barzaghi artistic foundry in Milan, with the assistance of the sculptor Pompilio Villarubbia Norri. The bust is dedicated to the famous Roman poet (Verona, 84 BC &#8211; Rome, 54 BC) who lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70178,"parent":68002,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70192","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70200,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70192\/revisions\/70200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitsirmione.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}