The Sovrans of the Old World

"[1])"The Sovrans of the Old World" (Romanesco original title: Li soprani der monno vecchio) is an 1831 sonnet written in the dialect of Rome, by poet Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.

However, in analyzing the raw, crude politics of his own time Belli touched upon a much broader section of Italy’s history, and upon the losses the nation suffered from foreign invasions and local abuses of power.

The use of dialect allows the poet to strip down the symbolic pretensions of sovereign authority and expose the raw violence, narcissicistic pretentiousness and insouciant contempt of rulers for the people over whom they hold sway.

This overwhelming power is such that, even when his curiosity about its reception is stirred sufficiently to send out an agent, an executor, to sound out how the proletariat really thinks of his arbitrary edicts, word comes back that his view of himself is widely endorsed by the very people he afflicts.

Se scrivi qualcosa su Roma il Belli non lo puoi non conoscere"Intanto Berlusconi prosegue nella sua partita ideologica.