The Lupi Cemetery

Wondering if in the shade of the cypresses and inside the comforted urns the sleep of death is perhaps less hard or not, we enter the Cimitero dei Lupi, or La Cigna Municipal Cemetery, today at the edge of an industrial area of Livorno, near the Cigna stream, in the locality of Santo Stefano dei Lupi. The area takes its name from the gronda of the Lupi, a vast area that in medieval times extended from Pisa to the village of Labron, so-called by the landowning family. It was precisely the edict of San Cloud, of 1804, to which Foscolo refers in the poem “I Sepolcri”, together with a concomitant yellow fever epidemic, to…