Ms. Vincenzi, Mayor of Genoa, considered an insult to the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy that, in the New Year concert at the Teatro Carlo Felice, has played the well-known Radetzky March, the Austrian Marshal accerrimo who was an enemy of the patriots in Milan. I believe that if you had done a survey, the majority of enthusiastic spectators, when questioned about the identity of Radetzky, he replied "But it is the author of the march." Ignorance that justifies because I myself do not hear about the repression of Radetzky at least half a century since, that is, the Risorgimento was put in limbo by the subjects to make room for more social aspects: eg General Bava Beccaris cannon against demonstrators Milanese 1898. Despite the silence, I still knew all of Radetzky, thanks to my notebook "for good" fourth-grade: a cover page was in fact told the story of the Five Days of Milan, with the short-lived victory for the Patriots, followed by the return of grim sergeant. The story was also accompanied by a poem in Milanese dialect, which I still remember the opening lines: "El if el Radesca boasted / de cognoss the Milanese / and inscì ridend it schersava el / co OS Croatia, the Hungarian co ... "Who knows who had written: I have searched in vain on the Internet.
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