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How enviable, then, are those who can turn their purity into a powerful promotional tool! @TheTLS
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«Stai sbagliando la direzione delle pennate» From the New Yorker to Internazionale
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Good to see someone engaging seriously with The Novel, a Survival Skill. @cribbenMerrill on Substack. tcmerrill.substack.com/p/the…
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On second thoughts, this photo is closer to the spirit of the thing...
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With the armistice and eventual withdrawal of the Bourbons from Palermo, the Across Sicily posts are over, but the book is there full of the voices the protagonists of this extraordinary adventure...
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“The idea was to enjoy the fruits of conquest, but to get rid of the conquerors.” Garibaldi on the attitude of the new Italian government after the collapse of the Bourbon kingdom and unification.
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30 May, 1860. ‘The enemy has offered conditions humiliating to the city of Palermo.’ Garibaldi pronounced these words from the first balcony of the town hall and concluded by asking the people if they wanted peace or war … ‘War! War!’ The people were delirious.” Antonio Beninati
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May 30
30 May, 1860, Palermo. a 24-hour armistice is signed on board HMS Hannibal, of the Royal Navy, anchored on the waterfront. "“God knows we needed a truce, obliged as we were to assemble cartridges that were fired as soon as made.” Garibaldi.
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29 May, 1860, Palermo. “The bodies of the dead, assuming the many and strange shapes of death’s convulsions, lie unburied in the streets, where their nauseating smell poisons the air.” Fratelli Borghese. (Palazzo Abatellis)
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May 29
29 May, 1860. The battle for Palermo rages. “Furniture was thrown down from the windows, the paving stones torn from the streets, to build the barricades.” Giuseppe Capuzzi.
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28 May, 1860. “Garibaldi had them put a mattress on the steps of the fountain, opposite the big door of the Palazzo, and there, at the foot of one of the tall statues that grace the piazza, he was brought news, gave orders, rested.” Cesare Abba.
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28 May, 1860. The Bourbon bombardment of Palermo. “Christs and Madonnas and pictures of saints and everything precious was, terrible to say, destroyed. People expected a miracle – that didn’t happen.” Emilio Zasio
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“At the first light of dawn we found ourselves near Ponte dell’Ammiraglio, where the Bourbons attacked us and the battle began.” Vincenzo Fuxa
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Night of 26/27 May. The descent to Palermo. “It was barely a path at all dropping down from crag to crag." Cesare Abba
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Gibilrossa. 12 km south east of Palermo. "IN THIS PLACE ON 26 MAY 1860 THE LEADER OF THE THOUSAND CAMPED HIS BRAVE MEN AND WAS WELCOMED WITH EXULTATION BY LA MASA AND THE PICCIOTTI."
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25 May., 1860. "The crenellated Marineo," Francesco Crispi.
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25 May, 1860. “Our column followed Orsini, convinced that Palermo was no longer an option." Abba... But, "At dawn we, turned and marched towards Marineo.” Bixio.
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24 May, 1860. Flight to Piana. “The order came to climb further up the hill. But as soon as we were on the road, we were led towards the rising sun, away from the battle… it felt like we were fleeing from Parco, from Palermo.” Giuseppe Capuzzi
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"Rosolino Pilo (Sicilian revolutionary), who had sat down to write a dispatch to me on the heights of San Martino, was struck by enemy fire and fell down dead.” Garibaldi.
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