A Mazzinian corporal attacked an Italian army barracks in 1870 shouting republican slogans

Evidence

On 24 May 1870 Pietro Barsanti, a Mazzinian corporal, attacked a barracks in Pavia with forty republican followers, shouting “Long live Rome! Long live the Republic! Down with the monarchy!”. He was arrested and shot on 27 August 1870. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2144

Categorization

• XREF: Fragmentary; connects to the broader Risorgimento/Italian unification historiography but is a bare anecdote with no analysis attached.