The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-06-24
!. ma 4 ]. RCH { ANGELO.
ITALIAN SCULPTOR FINDS HIM
. SELF FAMOUS.
Also . Poet and Musician After tstary-
B Inc for Years He Wins Competition
for Monument i, and Thousands Of Doll
lars Are His. !, #

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Excitement and jubilation rule the
local Italian colony. "a new artist has
been discovered in its very midst and
the strange strange part Of it all is that the
sculptor to whom all would now do
honor was not many days ago fear
ed and despised creature, one to whom
all self-respecting Italians alluded as
That Aocchi, the anarchist" Like
! many another great man Zocchi's fame
came over night. Saturday last the
world that can put its hand into its
pocket and draw forth fstfuls Of shin
ing coins knew him not. Yesterday
the busy little Italian colony spoke
only tZocchi," '.Zocchi,'' and was do
ing its utmost to spread abroad his
fame. Zocchi has been commissioned
by the committee that represents the
Italian Mutual Benevolent society to
carve in marble and granite the monu-
ment that is to be placed at San Ma
teo, and which will be the colony's ten
der tribute to all who find last rest.
ing place there. Competition for the
honor was keen Eight Of the best
known local artists eagerly sought for
. the prize, but the anarchist sculptor's
work, by unanimous vote, was award
ed the contract, that calls for a monu
ment % feet high, resting on a ped
estal Is feet square, and for which the
artists emOlument. is to be- 81 ,000..
When the Italian Benevolent associa-
ton purchased it's cemetery lot at San
Mateo President Ravenna essayed, by
general subscription, to raise fund
for monument. Money, however, was
coming in but slowly, when J. F. Flu
gazi, with characteristic generosity, Of
fered to bear the entire expense of the
monument. Artists were notified and
asked to submit designs. Friday last
eight designs were submitted, and a
note received from Zocchi asking the
committee to call and view a clay
model Of the proposed monument he
desired to- submit. In little howell
on Vallejo street, between sansome
and Battery, in a tiny dark room that
answered for both living room and
studio, Zocchi received the monument
committee. In shadowy corner the
model stood "a model that filled the
committee with delight and wonder
and made each man turn round and
congratulate his neighbor. The work
pleased on account of the originality
of the design, its tender, exquisite
beauty, and the rare art shown in the
modelling Of the angel of death, who
stands at the right of the heaven-pierc-
ing shaft. Zocchi will Immediately
begin his work, and as soon as the
monument is completed it will be
placed in the new Italian cemetery
The committee to whom the work Of
selecting the winning design was in
trusted consisted of J. F. Fugazi, DR..
Pescia, G. Almagia of l'Italia, F. Pc
dretti of La Voce, ex-senator G.. Pal
mieri and G. Costa. .Zocchi, the sculp-,
tor, is graduate of the Academy of
Art of Milan, and is said to be as fine
musician and poet as he is an artist:
His association with the little band of
harmless local anarchists has been. al
together a passive one. His anarch-
istic theories are not those usually at
tributed to the anarchist, but rather
the broad, generous theories of uni,
versal brotherhOOd.-San Francisco