"Voto contro Natura" (Vote against nature) . Made between 1860 and 1870, it is the anti-clerical denunciation of the terrible practice of the forced monacation. The subject is a woman in religious clothes and in advanced pregnancy, hidden in a corner in a deep state of despair, almost as if it were a prisoner.
There is a dedication engraved in the base of sculpture: '' to the protectors and supporters of the vote against Natura '', a real scream against those who favored the practice of the forced monacation of pregnant girls. The environment around the woman is unequivocally miserable, squalid, to underline the sadness and impotence of the subject.
Salvatore Grita wanted to demonstrate his contempt and his pain against the practice to intern in the convent unmarried mothers, perhaps also because he himself, son of a very young mother girl, grew up in an orphanage entrusted to the cloistered nuns, who evidently not They left him a great memory. So the story was deeply felt for him.