Renato Brozzi (traversetolo 1885 – 1963), il Gal D’or

Renato Brozzi (Traversetolo 1885 – 1963), Il Gal d’or
Gilt bronze sculpture on ancient marble base measuring 10.5 x 4 x 2 cm (including base) signed at the bottom.
This sculpture reproduces a brooch that Renato Brozzi had created for Gabriele D’Annunzio and which had inspired a sonnet in Parma dialect composed by the dialect poet Giovanni Casalini in 1938: «J’o vist la Spilla d’or con su el galett / ch’à fatt Renato Brozzi, o Testa ‘d fer; / a par ch’al canta, ‘l brilla, cmè n’elmett / in sima a la gran picca d’un guerier. / L’è ‘l sign dla forsa, l’è l’emblema s’cett / dla Vitoria, l’è un inno e l’è un penser: / beato chi sal ponta int-al zachett / e dal Gal d’Or al dventa cavalier».