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Unification of Italy 1861 -2011 - A Pontelandolfo

Pontelandolfo The massacre in a painting of the period

addition to the official history of the Risorgimento, there is another, long remained hidden for lack of respectful of "homeland memories."

Despite official celebrations "politically correct", we should remember that for the southern populations, the Renaissance was essentially a military conquest, which worsened the social and economic conditions and highly compromised every possible development.

Pontelandolfo is a municipality in the province of Benevento. It is well known for being the 14 August 18 61, scene of a massacre perpetrated by the Italian army in retaliation for the killing of 45 soldiers by the gang of robbers Jordan. On the orders of General Enrico Cialdini (photo below), Army Col. Peter Eleanor Negri, under the command of a battalion of 500 sharpshooters, massacred an estimated number of over 400 innocent people and destroyed the country's fire, but the parish registers show that the dead were about 900.

The fact is certainly one of his most obscure and controversial of our Risorgimento. An episode of a true civil war. The lieutenant of the king, Enrico Cialdini, said he was not to remain more of Pontelandolfo stone by stone.