mazzoni pamphlet exhibit

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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/