The book "were born peasants, bandits died" managed to take a small miracle. Since I read the final composition of Valentino Romano (edited by Capone exactly one year ago) I am fond of brigandage post unit, subject on which I had not ever stopped because of the difficulty of the problem and my other interests.
Beyond the personal, "were born peasants, bandits died" is a book that I would advise. I find it suitable for those who already know of the robbery several times. I find it very suitable for people of brigandage can not do anything because it allows for a split on the issue without having the impression of listening to empty words on the highest philosophical systems. The choice to tell not one but several short stories and pays pays particular because it is new stories. It tells of everyday life at the time of the robbers but not as if they were reading a manual of home education to boarders at the time. The stories are those of the poor, those that are reported in some file of the prefecture full of references to bandits first-rate general, senior officers and the first women's politics of the time. Stories of everyday life really experienced it personally and not as supporting actors. In the tales we move from insults to the king "gentleman" Vittorio Emanuele II the story of Lecce Nenna Nenna going crazy for real and fake, from the cost of the parliamentary committee on the robbery to "flight" of the police to get the brigands reported gangs in San Vito dei Normans. Do not miss the excellent references on Carmine Crocco and those on the general José Börjes with his notes on the diary - notepad. The background is the struggle for the restoration of the deposed Bourbon Piedmont invaders, but also the struggle of a southern people who do not give in to the new conditions in which it finds to national policy decisions and mistakes made and decisions taken in high places. A background of magnitude where one lives in poverty and heroic deeds, battles, corruption, despair, hatred and love. A nation without a state in constant motion. Authenticity of the stories told there can be no doubt. As demonstrated in "robber. Women guerrillas against the conquest of Piedmont (1860 - 1870) " (Upstream, Naples, 2007), and " Don José Börjes, general and guerrilla Catalan Bourbon " (Adda, Bari, 2003), archival research is the on the basis of work which Valentino Romano constructs his works. A solid base as it can be perceived from the list of archival sources: Central State Archives fund military tribunals for war - banditry and cross the Ministry of Interior, Cabinet, State Archives of Lecce, bottom Prefecture and Superintendency of Terra d'Otranto, Brindisi State Archives and the Office of the General Staff of the Army Historical background robbery . Also apply to me the words Monica Mazzitelli use in the afterword: "The history of paper rustling is not here: the general strutting, the list of armaments, the computation of the dead and the living, agreements at the palace, the betrayal gifts, conventions, treaties, covenants, declarations in parliament: paper that rustles with no smell. But here is the smell of history, remained entangled in the folds of its protagonists children, who up to more than a century ago were farmers embraced their own land - those that are not due to run away to seek their fortunes overseas - those who leave no trace of their passage, of which there the graves are not any ".
Good reading.
Roberto Della Rocca
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