A more modern example of censorship in Italy again involves a foreign
presence - this time, the Austrians in the
northernmost region of Trento, where this pamphlet was
published in 1912, three years before Italy officially declared
war against the Austrians. The subject of the pamphlet is the
19th century Italian revolutionary Tito Bassetti, but large
portions of the text are deliberately inflammatory and
designed to encourage armed resistance to the 20th century
Austrian army. The Austrian censors removed these parts, but some
enterprising person sympathetic to the Italian cause wrote them in
again, affording later readers the unique chance to see those
censored words reappear.
A project of The Digital Scriptorium, Special
Collections Library, Duke University. December
1996
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/mazzoni/exhibit/