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Brigandage in Southern Italy (Italian: brigantaggio) had existed in some form since ancient times. However, its origins as outlaws targeting random travellers would evolve vastly later on to become a form of a political resistance movement , especially from the 19th century onward.
Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. [1] It is practiced by a brigand, a person who is typically part of a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. [2] The word brigand entered English as brigant via French from Italian as early as 1400.
Carmine Crocco (5 June 1830 – 18 June 1905), known as Donatello or sometimes Donatelli, [1] was an Italian brigand.Initially a soldier for the Bourbons, he later fought in the service of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Carmino Crocco enrolled his companions and both led various clashes with the national guard and the Italian army. Caruso, under the command of Crocco, actively participated in the conquest of Basilicata and distinguished himself in diverse operations. On 6 April 1862, the gang clashed near Muro Lucano with regular troops, killing nine soldiers.
Giuliano was born on 16 November 1922, in Montelepre, a rural village in western Sicily, the fourth and youngest child of Salvatore Giuliano, Sr. and Maria Lombardo.His parents were landed peasants who had spent some of their earlier lives in the United States where they had earned the money to buy their farmland.
In 1995, a monument to Canadian soldiers in the Spanish Civil War was built near Ontario's provincial parliament. [119] On 12 February 2000, a bronze statue, "The Spirit of the Republic" by sculptor Jack Harman , based on a poster from the Spanish Republic, was placed on the grounds of the British Columbia Legislature. [ 120 ]
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Son of Domenico Summa and Anna Coviello, he was born into a poor family involved with problems with the law. His maternal uncle, Giuseppe Nicola Coviello, was a bandit who died burned in a hut where he was hiding from the police; his paternal uncle, Francescantonio, was sentenced to ten years for beating a bourbon gendarme and, after the imprisonment, fled to Apulia after killing a man for a ...