Monument to Caterina Campodonico, Marble tomb in Staglieno Cemetery, Italy

Monument to Caterina Campodonico is a life-size marble figure at the Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, showing a street vendor in traditional dress holding strings of hazelnuts and ring-shaped pastries. The sculpture stands in the lower western portico of the cemetery, surrounded by other marble tombs from the same era.

Caterina Campodonico (1804–1882), a street vendor from Portoria known as Cattainin dae reste, fell ill in 1880 and, seeing her relatives only waiting to divide her inheritance, spent her savings on a tomb commissioned from Lorenzo Orengo. The monument was placed in the lower portico of Staglieno Cemetery near bourgeois family tombs. The Genoese epitaph was written by dialect poet Giambattista Vigo (1844–1891).

The funeral inscription on the marble base is in Genoese and was written by the dialect poet Giambattista Vigo (1844–1891). It is commonly read alongside the loaf of bread Caterina holds in her hand, so that "canestrelli" is taken to mean sweet bread rings rather than the shortcrust biscuits of the same name.

The tomb is inside the Staglieno Cemetery, one of the larger cemeteries in Europe, where it is easy to get lost without a map. A site plan is available near the entrance and helps locate the lower western portico.

Caterina chose to be shown holding the very goods she sold every day so that anyone passing by would know exactly who she was and how she had lived. The monument was designed from the start as a personal introduction rather than a religious or symbolic image.