would be National Day, April 4, one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of an event that was the precondition of the Unification of Italy. The feast was prepared a government decree regent: Decree never abolished.
While Palermo is raised before the Church of the Gancia, was Garibaldi in Caprera and Mille were still far from Fourth and ships that would take them to Marsala.
The whole of Sicily rose up, the news of this act of revolution, in Palermo, a group of patriots had risen against their oppressors.
The Bourbons made concessions, which withdrew early.
The people tried to save the insurgents, through a hole in a wall of the Church of Gancia (the pit of salvation) but 13 of them were shot, and one, Sebastian Camarrone, survived the firing squad, but against the law , which quel caso imponeva la commutazione della pena, fu finito, con un colpo in testa.
A ricordare il sacrificio delle Tredici vittime, non ci sarà né una corona di fiori né l’ombra di una cerimonia pubblica.
Niente!
Palermo dimentica i suoi morti, così come li dimenticano la Sicilia e il Paese.
Fino a qualche mese fa, ricorderete, non era stato previsto neanche un comitato preparatorio per il centocinquantesimo dell’Unità, che cadrà nel 2011; o per Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, che morì poco prima dell’Unità.
Come se negli Stati Uniti dimenticassero i patrioti della loro guerra d’indipendenza, la strage di Boston, la battaglia di Yorktown o George Washington.
bad weather, our own.
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