Trilussa Death Mask

Code (B121)

Funerary portrait, cast on his face just after death, of the great roman poet Carlo Alberto Camillo Salustri aka Trilussa, author of numerous sonnets, poems and literary compositions in the roman dialect. His satires in Fairy Story are famous and very popular.

“Now I’m leaving.”
(Trilussa’s last words before dying on 21 December 1950)