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Name: Monument for Cesare Sarfatti
Location: field 1, no. 21
Author: Adolfo Wildt (sculptor)
Construction date: 1924
The lawyer Cesare Sarfatti (1866-1924) was a famous criminal lawyer, first of a socialist orientation and then a follower and friend of Mussolini. Sarfatti was the husband of Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini’s lover, and had been the president of the Cassa di Risparmio of the Lombard Provinces since 1923. He was responsible for the acquisition of numerous works of art for the bank’s collection.
The monument is the work of sculptor Adolfo Wildt (1868-1931) and is made up of two marble tables with the inscription “Italicum Jus Pro Justitia” with a seven-branched candelabrum in front and a geometric drawing around it. Wildt sculpted the head of the lawyer in 1927. The inscription on the base also recalls his son Roberto, an alpine volunteer in the First World War, who died on the Col d’Echele on the Asiago plateau in January 1918 at the age of 17.
