Monument to the poet Trilusso, in Roman dialect. Piazza Trilusso, Rome For some fun political puns, look here In the Shade While I read my usual paper, Sprawled in the shade of a [tree] I see a pig and I say to him: “Goodbye, swine!” I see a donkey and I say to him: “Goodbye,… Continue reading Italian Satirical Poetry
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Papa Fan: A Satirist for the Modern Papacy
Thanks to a tip from Ross, I have for some time been following a very funny fotolog by Francesco Rabaglia, aka Papa Fan (papa is Italian for pope, differentiated from papà – dad – by the stress). It’s hard to see the humor unless you understand Italian well: basically the writer is putting funny captions… Continue reading Papa Fan: A Satirist for the Modern Papacy