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, and met Giuseppe Vitelleschi in Rome, and the next year, he was soon enrolled in the Brera Academy. He remained a resident mainly of Milan. He exhibited in 1877 at Naples: ''Arch of Alfonso d'Aragona''; in 1880 at Naples, he exhibited: a stucco statue of ''Sant' Ambrogio''; in 1883 in Milan: ''The Birichino'', bronze head; ''Wagner'', stucco bust; ''Il dispettoso'', Marble statue; and ''La maliziosetta''. In 1883 in Rome, he displayed ''Lacrime'' and ''Il Marinaro''. In the 1884 Turin Exhibition, he displayed: ''Liebig'', stucco bust; ''Wagner''; ''Il Marinaro'', and again ''Il Birichino''. In 1886 at Milan, he sent: ''La Ciociara'', statuette in terracotta, and ''il Mattino''; in 1887 at Venice, he sent: ''La Predica'' and again ''Il Marinaro''. A Bologna in 1888 exhibited another bronze statuette and a marble head entitled ''Sorriso''. He participated at the first Architecture Exposition of Turin. In 1894 he sculpted the bronze monument dedicated to

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Bibliography

* Domenico Pisani, “Salvatore Pisani scultore 1859 - 1920”, Pizzo Calabro, Edizioni Esperide, 2012.

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