Zappala also completed a '' St Peter '' , one of the 12 statues at the basilica of San Paolo Fuori le Mura in Rome . He was awarded a medal and diploma in the first contest for the monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II . He completed monuments to Giuseppe La Farina and Francesco Miceli found in the camposanto of Messina , and the first of these at the Promotrice of Rome , won the silver medal of honor . He sculpted a copy of the Fountain of Neptune , ( larger than life ) , to replace the prior work by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli in Messina . He also sculpted Portrait of his dead wife , and many other busts and small monuments . Zappala was knighted in the Order of the Crown of Italy . He died during the 1908 Messina earthquake
1908 Messina earthquake
1908 Messina earthquake
Gregorio Zappalà