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Ancient novel - Cesare Giardini

The legacy of the Prioress The novel has a duration of one year: that 1861 that followed the proclamation of unity. The action, after a brief start in Naples to which it corresponds, and at the end an equally short epilogue in Civitavecchia, takes place entirely in Basilicata, which was one of the regions that gave the Piedmontese the hardest time. The Prioress who appears in the book is a bit like the symbol of these rebellious people who do not want to accept the new order of things, and prefer to exhaust themselves in a savage, relentless struggle, which is not new. The novel touches the height of its tension when it describes how the gangs of the brigand Crocco and the Spanish general Borjes were on the point of taking Potenza and achieving a success that would have given the Bourbon movement a capital on the territory of the ancient kingdom, with unforeseeable consequences, including the intervention of some foreign power, Austria and France. That night, the failed assault on the city, for which the author keenly analyzes the reasons, was probably fatal for the fate of the Bourbon dynasty, and it is here that the novel finds its logical conclusion.

Article 9

From the literary chronicle of Enzo Fabiani Carlo Alianello, author of the Legacy of the Prioress, gold plaque of the "Il campiello" award is inspired by unknown episodes of the Risorgimento. His culture and his passionate need to re-hear the voices of those who have done something to make humanity a little more worthy, and his predilection for 19th century Italian military facts, have found in him a clear and generous storyteller. The idea of his latest work had already been wavering in Alianello's soul for some time, in fact in an interview he stated that he wanted to tell the story of the enterprise of a thousand and the conquest of the kingdom of Naples.