“Il Lazzarone”
Ceramic sculpture
Unique piece
1958

H 42 1/8 inches – 66 7/8 inches – 22 7/8 inches

In 1958, Andrea Spadini created the Lazzarone, whose status Stendhal defined in his 1811 diary: “The last class of people in Naples is famous, throughout Europe, under the name of lazzarone”. The Lazzarone is a man of the people, idle and fickle, a sort of barefoot who lives by his wits in Naples, mainly on the port. Andrea Spadini’s choice fell on a famous Lazzarone who, fleeing after his petty theft, slipped on a rock and lost all the gold coins, which flew into the air, provoking the laughter and jeers that made him famous.

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