Modena: Monument Ciro Menotti. On 3 February of 1831, the young trader Ciro Menotti, affiliated to the Carbonari, was captured along with another forty tr Carbonari by the guards of the Duke of Modena, Francis IV of Habsburg, with the consent of which was preparing an insurrection that was to take place two days later. Apart from a number of assumptions about this volte-face of the Duke and any interpretation of any historical fact, here we want to commemorate an event of our Risorgimento, which, with all its shadows, but especially with all its lights, those resulting from the strong patriotic feelings democratic and awakens us continued high feelings, and want to also reflect on the events and human feelings and impulses that regulate, then as now, the alternate choices of who owns the power ...
"Last night broke a terrible conspiracy against me. Send me the Executioner, "the appeal was" heartfelt "(!) Of the Duke: Metternich lightning sent troops to restore order .... France, faithful to the "principle of non-intervention" was unmoved .... Ciro Menotti and his Carbonari suffered the death penalty and the insurgency broke out the same. Menotti-figure rose to a beacon of courage
Italian! But, as so much more ... and more, was almost forgotten until Modena, riavvicinatasi his hero, designed to celebrate it in this monument!
And Francis IV? Whatever the "political reasons" that have led to betray his friend, however, in agreement with the rest of our supreme father sweet speech and repeat the lines: Oh
sore all over
created rabble you're the place to speak of is hard,
mei ye had here been sheep or Zebee!
Inferno, canto XXXII
betrayal, Dante, is the worst of sins, as he also states in the eleventh canto of the Inferno, when he says that those who betray trust is very serious not only because it breaks the bond of love that nature has placed among men, but also what is added to special trust such as kinship, hospitality, political party ...
"Last night broke a terrible conspiracy against me. Send me the Executioner, "the appeal was" heartfelt "(!) Of the Duke: Metternich lightning sent troops to restore order .... France, faithful to the "principle of non-intervention" was unmoved .... Ciro Menotti and his Carbonari suffered the death penalty and the insurgency broke out the same. Menotti-figure rose to a beacon of courage
Italian! But, as so much more ... and more, was almost forgotten until Modena, riavvicinatasi his hero, designed to celebrate it in this monument!
And Francis IV? Whatever the "political reasons" that have led to betray his friend, however, in agreement with the rest of our supreme father sweet speech and repeat the lines: Oh
sore all over
created rabble you're the place to speak of is hard,
mei ye had here been sheep or Zebee!
Inferno, canto XXXII
betrayal, Dante, is the worst of sins, as he also states in the eleventh canto of the Inferno, when he says that those who betray trust is very serious not only because it breaks the bond of love that nature has placed among men, but also what is added to special trust such as kinship, hospitality, political party ...
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