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The source of the trouble was the supporters of brigands (like Carmine Crocco from Basilicata, the most famous outlaw during the Italian unification) [10] received from various kinds of manuténgoli (maintainers) – great men, corrupt officials, political parties, and the peasants who were terrorized, or who profited by selling the brigands ...
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.
The brigands responsible for the murders are brought to Athens for trial, from The Illustrated London News. The Dilessi murders were committed between 4 and 7 April 1870, when one Italian and three English aristocrats were murdered at Dilesi (Greek: Δήλεσι), a coastal town in eastern Boeotia, by Greek brigands while touring the area near Marathon.
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The Dilessi Murders: Greek Brigands and English Hostages. Longmans, London, 1961. Reprint: Prion, London, 1998, ISBN 1-85375-280-0. The Hellenistic origins of Byzantine literature. Washington DC, 1963. Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries AD 610–1071. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1966. Reprint: Medieval Academy of America 1987, ISBN 0-8020-6667-4
A bersagliere posing with the dead body of Napolitano after his execution by firing squad.. Nicola Napolitano (February 28, 1838 – September 10, 1863), also known by the nickname Caprariello, a nickname derived from his activity of goatherd, was born in Nola, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Li chiamarono... briganti! (They called them... brigands!) is a 1999 Italian film, directed by Pasquale Squitieri.It tells the story of Carmine Crocco, a 19th-century Italian brigand who gained recognition when he came to the forefront of the brigandage during the Italian unification, by opposing the army of King Victor Emmanuel II.