veduta Vasto

The Poem to Vasto

Card, Rossetti's Places

In the years of his London exile, Gabriele Rossetti remembered his hometown with these words: Ancient Town Hall of the RomansWhere I first saw the light of day. You, who adorn the beach of the FrentaniWith the Adriatic before you and joyful hills around,And to show the merit of your childrenYou crowned yourself with a…

Gabriele Rossetti a Napoli (Immagine creata con AI)

The Adventurous Life

Rossetti's Places

Gabriele Rossetti spent his childhood and youth in Vasto until the age of 21, when, thanks to a recommendation from Count Wenceslaus Mayo—the father of a school friend and administrator of the d’Avalos estate in Vasto—he was welcomed in Naples by Marquis Tommaso d’Avalos, who financed his studies. With the arrival of the French in…