Currò Psacharopulo Tomb

Inside an imposing aedicula set against the boundary wall, the monument in Bardiglio and Carrara marble of the Currò family stands on a plinth, decorated with a large bas-relief flanked by the majestic statues of Hope, in the form of an adoring angel, and Charity, in the guise of a woman intent on handing a cup to a child. To crown it, on a high pedestal, sits the allegory of Faith.
The tomb was granted in 1878 to Rosario Currò (Acireale 1813-Trieste 1887), a Sicilian entrepreneur who moved to Trieste in 1837 to find ample fortune there and who was designated as baron by the King of Italy. Very active in charity initiatives, a bust of him by Enrico Levi can be found in the atrium of ITIS (formerly known as the “General Institute for the Poor”).
The monument, by the well-known Genoese sculptor Santo Varni, the creator of numerous tombs in the Staglieno monumental cemetery in Genoa, was commissioned in 1870 by Antonio Currò, Rosario's brother, for Catania Cemetery. Retrieved by the latter in 1878, it was allocated to Trieste Cemetery.
An exceptional case in cemetery sculpture, the bas-relief depicts a family reunion that took place on 14 May 1857, on the occasion of the golden wedding of Placido Currò and Antonia Badalà, the commissioners' parents. In a dense sequence of fifteen strongly characterised characters - almost a fossilised family portrait - the couple's children are represented: four boys, accompanied by their wives, and five girls, including two Benedictine nuns.