“Brigand, the Exhibition”
An exhibition of documents and photographs to tell the true story of female brigandage
16 May / 5 June 2024
Church of Santa Maria Stella Maris
Piazzetta del Grande Archivio, 5 - Naples
FREE ENTRY
visits from 10.00 to 18.30 every day
A particular exhibition curated by the anthropologist Domenico Scafoglio , on the phenomenon of Brigandage, will be inaugurated on Thursday 16 May 2024, at 4.00 pm in the neo-Gothic church Santa Maria Stella Maris e Sa Biagio ai Caciolii, in Piazzetta del Grande Archivio in the historic center of Naples. post-unification in Southern Italy.
The exhibition, which is a preview of a more complex exhibition which will be held in autumn, focuses on the role of women within a vast movement of struggle, especially peasant ones, which between 1860 and 1870 shocked Southern Italy at dawn. of the Unit.
“Whatever you want to call it: insurgency, legitimist movement, civil war, social conflict, reaction to modernization, clash of civilizations and so on, the Brigandage was a tragic event, which cost Italian society, including soldiers, brigands and civilians, many tens of thousands of deaths, almost all from the South" is the prologue of the recent book "Brigantesses and brigands, the two halves of the Band" by Domenico Scafoglio and Simona De Luna which deals in a scientific manner and based on "aseptic" documentary sources in the their drafting, the long period which from the end of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies engaged tens of thousands of Piedmontese soldiers against a popular "army" composed mainly of peasants or, in any case, of poorly armed people not accustomed to war strategies and who still today, in part, it remains shrouded in silence under the cover of "state secrets".
In this particular exhibition, we deal with the stories of women from different social strata who went into hiding and who, in some cases, even became guerrilla leaders of a certain level. Stories that the recent Netflix series brought to the attention of a large audience with perhaps unexpected success but which addresses these stories of the lived life of Brigantesses such as Michelina De Cesare , Filomena Pennacchio, "Ciccilla" and many others even less known, in a often too "imaginative" compared to the historical reality that is revealed in this exhibition which will remain open until 5 June 2024. The female figure is in fact analyzed in all its aspects, in the context of a life made up of ambushes, armed clashes, of fighting and stealing, outlining the role and also the "power" that these women exercised over their fellow gang members, revealing aspects that at the time were impossible to understand for those who captured the brigands and also for those who then tried them.
The curator of the exhibition, Domenico Scafoglio and Nino Daniele , already esteemed Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Naples in past legislatures, will talk about this and more on Thursday 16 May at 4pm in the Stella Maris church. The exhibition is free and open to entry.
For further information:
Associazione I Sedili di Napoli - ETS
80134 Naples, Via Sedile di Porto, 33
80138 Naples, Piazzetta del Grande Archivio, 5
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