And he said they used to cheer Verdi,
In Rome, after the opera,
And the guards couldn’t stop them,
And that was an anagram for Vittorio
Emanuele Re D’ Italia,
And the guards couldn’t stop them.
Old men with beautiful manners,
Sitting in the Row of a morning;
Walking on the Chelsea Embankment.
Carlo Carrà, Patriotic Celebration, Free Word Painting (1914)
"The Typewriter," Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome