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Cesare Battisti and the Trentino


the contrary. A few weeks later we see Nazario Sauro, an Istrian, sailing from Ancona bent on a very dangerous expedition to the opposite Adriatic shore. He is caught and, sharing the fate of Battisti, thrown into prison, then hanged. It is the answer of the martyr from the Adriatic shore to the martyr


The Hangman proudly exhibiting Battisti's dead body

hailing from the Alps of Trentino, cementing the two sections of the country in one single faith, one single ideal, against one common enemy.

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