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Piazza San Michele
(Loggia di Palazzo Pretorio)

Carlo Piaggia

Badia di Cantignano, Lucca 1827 - Karkog [Sannar], Sudan 1882
Italian explorer of the region of Uganda and the Southern Nile river
(Wikipedia)

Augusto Passaglia
1896

Description

Bronze bust on a console with a marble text plaque.

Inscription(s)

a
CARLO PIAGGIA
intrepido esploratore delle terre affricane
mdccclvi _ mdccclxxxii
i concittadini
addi xx settembre mdcccxcvi

Sculptor

Augusto Passaglia (Lucca 1838 - Firenze/Florence 1918), Italian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Soprintendenza patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per i beni architettonici e paesaggio per le Province di Lucca e Massa Carrara, Lucca - Statuaria pubblica.

Locatie (N 43°50'33" - E 10°30'8") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto142; Photograph: 16 May 2017
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