Data sheet
Name: Monument for Augusto Osimo and Augusta Muggia
Location: field 4, no. 93
Author: Emilio Quadrelli (sculptor)
Construction date: 1923
Augusto Osimo (1875-1923), known as the “poet of action,” joined the Socialist Party in 1893 and became the General Secretary of the Società Umanitaria in 1903, later rising to General Director in 1919. A close friend of Turati and Kuliscioff, he contributed to projects such as the People’s House, the Social Museum, the People’s Theater, and the Italian Union for Popular Education, and he directed the periodical La Cultura Popolare. Ricardo Bachi described him in a notable article in La Rassegna Mensile di Israel as a “dreamer of the ghetto.”
Above the monument, sculptor Emilio Quadrelli crafted a composition of bronze roses. The epitaph on the stele commemorates his “great work dedicated to humanity” and honors his wife, Augusta.
