Ricordi intorno alle Cinque Giornate di Milano (18-22 marzo 1848) Seconda edizione con aggiunte

An intimate chronicle captures the feverish days when Milan rose against Austrian rule in March 1848. The narrator, a politically active Lombard, sketches the broader European currents that stoked the revolt before plunging into the city’s streets, where spontaneous demonstrations quickly turned into barricades and skirmishes. Readers follow his own narrow escapes, encounters with fellow insurgents, and the tense moments of negotiating with occupying forces.

The memoir also details the makeshift provisional government that emerged from the chaos, the symbolic raising of the tricolour over the Duomo, and the everyday hardships faced by civilians amid the fighting. Through vivid observations of crowded squares, improvised defenses, and the raw energy of a populace demanding change, the account offers a personal window onto a pivotal uprising without revealing the later resolutions of the conflict.