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Fenestrelle camp

The next celebration will be just "celebrations" in which supporters of different teams will compete. That of the "civilizing North" and the "South enslaved" as the main factions in the field accompanied by all the many variations on two themes. I have the impression that the current policy will dictate the rules of engagement rather than enrich the new exploration and new interpretations of historiography.

But we come to Fenestrelle . The work of this imposing building began in 1728 and lasted for 122 years. It 'was the biggest strongest in Europe, used primarily as a place of detention.

The echo of the Hautes Alpes - Newspaper politico-administrative-literary-industrial district of Pinerolo : in front-page August 10, 1861 reads: " The robbery, which led for some time afflicted and desolate the Neapolitan provinces, took all the proportions and appearance of a war of partisans in favor of the Bourbons ... . For us, the language sounds different from what was perceived then. In news, the August 17 " Wednesday with a special convoy arrived via ferrata in Pinerolo approximately 260 refractory or resisting conscription of the Neapolitan Province ... They were accompanied by soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and did not give any reason to lament their passing. The fame of many bandits gathered in peaceful valley Fenestrelle had a little 'alarmed and soul popular opinion, it is now fully comfortable, but that in any event to keep you? . Even then, more than the living, do not say the rights of the prisoners seem to mind the safety and 'peace'. But a few days after a record leaves much cryptic language suggest that the concentration of the Fort not everything was so quiet, " Attempted mutiny. One of our correspondents writes that the strong and the country was in great apprehension for a while. The soldiers belonged to the disbanded army of Bourbon, refractories, and others such as these had hatched a plot that could have painful consequences. Was a matter of occupying the most important sites of the fort and seize it. As luck would have still time to prevent this Negro plot was discovered. He then took the energy and intelligent commander of the fort and the local authorities, including through promptly to those of the Chief District with the appropriate measures. We hope that this regrettable incident remains isolated, and did not, in favor of 'the measures taken, no mourning consequence. "

La Gazzetta del Popolo of August 28 he wrote: "And so sad if he could design one day, while you would expect the dispatch of the blows given to the bandits of the southern provinces, came the news ... there is the need to put siege to Fenestrelle, as we had to do in Gaeta and Citadel of Messina .

do not need much imagination to imagine conditions of concentration camp life in this universe [if the penitentiary of Pinerolo was considered, the chronicles of "unhealthy"]. Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca , pro Secretary of State Pius VII, who was arrested with the pope on the orders of Napoleon in 1809 and held the fort for three years, wrote in his memoirs: "The Fenestrelle made in order for those times so much fear in Italy, as is wont to do in the northern parts of Europe, the bound in Siberia "[was detained for several months and then sent into exile in Lyon, the archbishop of Turin, Luigi Fransoni , strenuous Siccardi opponent of laws that restricted the privileges of the clergy].

An officer Garibaldi, Cattabeni Vincent, former constituent of the Roman Republic , captured by the national along with other officers " red shirts" after the clash in Aspromonte and their held, there you go crazy and die. Gently to put the entire Savoy Garibaldi with former soldiers and former papal Bourbons.

The Waldensian pastor Georges Appia he visited the prison and Fenestrelle in his memoirs, published by Flammarion descendants at in Paris in 1923, wrote: " October 1860. When we arrived in Fenestrelle prisoners are arranged along the walls of the fortress as they try to warm up, others along the river trying to wash them ... the only shirt. Their accent, their faces brown, the shape of the face, we were told that they were Swiss or Austrian, but Marche, Romagna, in a word all the Papal States .. A few days later 800 prisoners would be arriving from Naples. " He had gone to the fort, with the teacher and the pastor Guigou Ribet, because he saw a column of prisoners in Pinerolo, " without a beak of a penny, ragged, hungry and tired for several weeks of captivity "

would be interesting to reconstruct how many there were deported, how many died there and why, how many escaped, what were the forms of resistance or overt" mutiny "and what legal frameworks of repression were implemented. But these questions may come too late.

to prove that in this country any opportunity we can to sell their wares policy See the chronicle of May 7, 2010 when a group led by Duccio Mallamaci held the fort for a Fenestrelle Exhibition in Memory and Honor of Military and Civil, of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the other Italian States , Fallen, deportation and extermination for defending the homeland in the War of Aggression, conquest and colonization of 1861.

The event attended by the deputy Mario Borghezio , the League, known for the racism shown off to all the South, beginning with the Italian south. There is still a long way to go if to interpret in a manner inconsistent with the history of Italian unification must be support by appearing as Borghezio.

The Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca be read and downloaded from Google books: Bartolomeo Pacca,
Historical memories of the Ministry of 'two trips France and the imprisonment in the fortress of St. Charles in Fenestrelle of Cardinal Bartolomeo Pacca written by himself and divided into three parts,

Orvieto, Pompeii Printing, 1843

Memories of Appia pastor [ Georges Appia, pasteur et professeur et en Italie in Paris: 1827-1910: Souvenirs REUNIS par sa famille: illustrious de dessins de Georges Appia , Flammarion, Paris , 1923] can be found at the library of the Centro Culturale Valdese Torre Pellice.

The Echo of the Hautes Alpes is located at the Library of Alliaud Pinerolo.

On Vincenzo Cattabiani , v. M. Deiana, A VC Garibaldi 800, in G. Continiello cur ., Garibaldi, a thousand times, a thousand lives, AM & D, Cagliari, 2010

volume Fulvio Izzo, lager I of Savoy - History of the Risorgimento in the infamous concentration camps for the southern , Upstream, Naples, 1999, is built with an intolerable aggressive rhetoric [is a chapter entitled " final solution", the author should know what is evoking] takes to be reliable reviews both the information provided by the daily clerical era, the ' Harmony, at face value and the chronicles of Civilization Catholic yet to reliably reconstruct the situation in Fenestrelle and San Maurizio Canavese.