Giuseppe Cava
Dialect poet. Savona 1870 - 1940.
Said Beppin da Cà was an Italian poet and writer born in a house located under the Brandale tower.
After school he began to work as workers at the Savona factory Tardy and Benech, at the age of 18 he lost his right leg due to an accident at work.
He thus became a typographer. He published his poems in various city periodicals, some of which he founded, such as the humorous and satirical sidewalk, which had about five years of life.
A Savona street was named in memory of the poet and a marble bust was dedicated near the Brandale tower, near the place where he was born.
Taken from "Filing cabinet of illustrious men in Savona" by Ernesto Baldassarre and Renato Bruno with the kind permission of the Savona History Patria Society
