Roberto Antolini: Having a “stanza e mensa” [room and table] in Palazzo Pizzini in the mid-1700s: Giuseppe Felice Matteo Givanni, a priest/rationalist intellectual, and a dialect poet singer of the Rovereto silk era.
Giuseppe Felice Givanni was an 18th-century rationalist priest from Rovereto. He was also a poet, who in his short stories written in dialect verse (almost all still unpublished) narrates – in a playful and metaphorical way – life and especially the conflicts of the Roveretano silk age. Around the mid-18th century, he was the chaplain …
