When we were Bourbons ...
The South before the unification of Italy was a kingdom, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. And this was at least until 1861 when the Piedmont indebted to France and England (ceded to France Nice) decided, at the urging and support of these two states of unconditional defame then plunder our land. Among the other pointed at the sight of England Kingdom of the Two Sicilies had given him a foretaste of another goal: to close the Papal State. In fact, throughout England era was a sort of conspiracy Protestant, who longed to destroy, to say their "great Babylon", which corresponds to the Eternal City, Rome and more specifically the Vatican, and then the whole Church and Certainly, Garibaldi (the first Mason) when the famous Porta Pia attacked the Papal kingdom fell under the illusion that perhaps the Church's temporal power would then be destroyed, that would mend best Gospel passage in which Jesus said, referring to the Church, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it! ". For a long time, through the media of the time, had left a smear campaign against the Bourbons. The promises made by Garibaldi certainly were not maintained. He was ordered to military service in the kingdom that was already optional. But the decision was the worst factory closures and many of them were moved to the north. In the valley of 'Irno, where the population was devoted to wool, many workers remained unemployed, suffered the same fate as the many ironworks Irpinia, were also confiscated Church property and the determined protests of the Bishop of Avellino Monsignor Gallo for the abuses perpetrated against innocent and defenseless people earned him deportation to a concentration camp in the Alps. It was not just a political change but were forcibly snatched the ethical and cultural roots of a particularly religious people, principles of war was, therefore, that we invaded, Enlightenment and revolutionary principles, already widespread in aristocratic salons and civilians, imposed by bayonets and guns Napoleonic Piedmont jobs came with the business cards of de-Christianization Masonic and economic exploitation. In all but a heroic people resisted with full force, giving rise to the largest popular uprising never known from Italy that cost at least 70,000 dead! this phenomenon in spontaneous and populist is still misunderstood because of the official history, which is the story written by the winners, who hastily identified as "bandits" all the insurgent populace!
The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was far from poor, there were already the first forms of welfare state (welfare state) as the property of the poor in Naples, there were 200 km of track, which had not North and travelers traversing this land of ours had called the "garden" was so well cultivated. The orchards were our pride, citrus fruits were exported throughout Europe. Naples was the capital of culture, the Teatro San Carlo was the pride of Italy, the excavations of Pompeii were already frequented the King on Wednesday and received all, opened the door to housewives and farmers and everything in a calm atmosphere resulting from the fact that wars were not known for several centuries in the country and nor there n ' were in the program, the Bourbon army was in fact composed of a small number of volunteers, just as he wanted the medieval-Christian tradition. The area of \u200b\u200bthe valley of 'Irno was only marginally affected by the events of urban guerrilla warfare and popular uprising that took the water as the center of the word, because the location of the bands came only to lick our mountains. Nevertheless there are many events of great importance, starting from 1861 when Solofra, was challenged with street demonstrations in the election of Mayor Jerome Grassi, expression of the liberal state put in power by the new masters. To the cry of "live or nuosto king, death to 'liberals and partisans" Solofrana the riot led to the replacement of the new mayor with Bourbon Vincenzo Guarino obedience that made Francis the exiled second (King of the Two Sicilies), while the landowners Solofrana, Piedmontese army holed up in Naples silent, waiting for the order was restored. In S. Agata anti-revolutionary groups instead cut down the tree of liberty which the centers of Montorese said. To quell this situation of turmoil and opposition were sent from Naples a group of 800 soldiers, which worsened things because they were in need of housing and were a scourge to the people who had to give them room and board. An appeal against the municipal authorities, arose from the fact that these were made from the rich part of the population that had taken possession of the assets owned. That of the common land was the real spring that triggered the rebellion of the people, because the farmers on this land, until then (thanks to Bourbon) had exercised civic uses, that had drawn the necessities of life. In fact, they were allowed to make free culture small plots of land in state property public. But the damage was not only these, just think that Solofra was already famous for its leather and for the many shops, more than a hundred that produced the precious scrolls, well after the occupation of these shops in Piedmont they were 5 or so more. One of the leaders of the Vendee, Monsieur de Charette, once said to his followers: "our home for us are our villages, our altars, our tombs, all that our fathers loved before us. Our homeland is our faith, our land, our king ... but what their country for them? you understand? ... they have in mind, we feel beneath our feet ... " words that could mean any insurgent Italian Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ... maybe our neighbor.
Francesco Diana
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