Talk:Fra Diavolo
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This is seriously biased. It gets major parts of Pezza's life wrong, and takes a very pro-French view of events in Naples during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic invasions.--Al-Nofi 16:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
- I think you're right, or at least the Italian sources are way less critic of him, and if you ever go to Itri you'll find his name everywhere as a local hero and patriot. The original source, the Britannica, may have been influenced by the French accounts. For instance I can't find any reference to his arrest by Naselli [1] nor to his excesses, except from Britannica and works based on it, while his murders before becoming a brigand are detailed by many sources. --Εξαίρετος (msg) 16:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
- I've got a raft of material on Pezza, a fellow Itrano, but many demands on my time. You're right about the reliance on French material. Nevertheless, he was pretty ferocious during the 1799 campaign. He calmed down a lot by 1806. Piero Pieri, the distinguished military historian, says he had a veritable genius for guerrilla warfare.--Al-Nofi 22:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I've been making some changes. Hope you like it. --Al-Nofi (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)--Al-Nofi (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
