Garibaldi’s forces suppressed Sicilian peasant revolts on behalf of order

Evidence

The political conduct of the Garibaldini in Sicily in 1860 should be studied—a political conduct which was dictated by Crispi: the peasant movements of insurrection against the barons were crushed pitilessly, and the anti-peasant National Guard was created. Typical was the repressive expedition of Nino Bixio into the Catania region, where the insurrections were most violent. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 537

Categorization

• SEED: The unexamined underside of Risorgimento nationalism — peasants erased from the ‘people’ who made the nation — could anchor an essay on who gets counted in national founding myths.
• QUESTION: Gramsci flags that the anti-peasant violence of 1860 has ‘never been studied and analysed’ — worth chasing what scholarship has since revealed.
• XREF: connects to: Sicilian peasant leagues won land reform then were brutally repressed