Brigantesse e briganti. Le due metà della banda

A powerful book, one of a kind, which rewrites the history of a phenomenon, whatever you want to call it (insurgency, legitimist movement, civil war, social conflict, reaction to modernization, clash of civilizations and so on), involved for a decade not only men but also and often above all women, on more than one occasion on the front line. We will read the stories of violent, stubborn, bloodthirsty, tenacious, strong brigandesses who decided to do anything to rebel against the new order. Sometimes they were, as well as warriors, wives and mothers. We will learn about the exploits of Maria Rosa Marinelli, the crimes of Maria Oliverio, the stain of Sceppella, the cruelties of the Masini gang, the wiles of the ambush specialist Luisa Mollo. From Cilento to the Alburni, from Irpinia to Basilicata, the daily life of brigands and brigands is also reconstructed in the woods and mountains: women and men protagonists and protagonists of a heroic and tragic peasant war.