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Updated: May 29, 2025

At first Borjès was pleased with the peasants who came to him, but as they were few, he was obliged to join Crocco's large band, and he now began to see, with horror, what kind of associates he had fallen amongst. He had no authority; the brigands laughed at his rebukes; never in his life, he writes, had he come across such thieves.

Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco - The Liberation of Italy