Notice printed by the Bondavalli and Compagno Printing House, September 20, 1870 The Municipality enthusiastically announces the news of the liberation of Rome "from the nightmare of foreign oppression" and that "now Italy is really made!".

In 1860 the young republican Eugenio Bianchini tried in vain to reach Genoa to embark with the Thousand, and then managed to join Garibaldi in Sicily to participate in the landing in Reggio Calabria, gaining the rank of officer in the battle of Maddaloni. After the campaigns of 1860, he was one of the promoters of the “Cacciatori del Crostolo” battalion. He died a prisoner in Rome in 1867 from wounds sustained in the battle of Mentana, in Lazio, fought between the papal troops with the French allies, and a legion of Garibaldi, after a failed attempt to take Rome to transfer the capital of the Kingdom of Italy. .

"Carel Albert la fat la suppa / Pius IX al gha dè al pan / E Redeschi al l’la bagneda / Con al sangov di talian". (Carlo Alberto made the soup / Pius IX gave him the bread / and Radetzki wet it / with the blood of the Italians) In these verses we want to underline the responsibilities of Carlo Alberto and Pius IX who, after the uprisings of 1848 , form a coalition with Ferdinand of Bourbon, during the clashes that lead to the wars of Independence against Austria. One of the most violent episodes is the one involving the Austrian troops under the command of Marshal Josef Radetzky, on the occasion of the Five Days of Milan.

A Garibaldi volunteer from Reggio Emilia, in 1848 Rainero Taddei was one of the six Reggio people who landed in Marsala with the expedition of the Thousand. He participated in all the campaigns of Italian independence and died in 1866 fighting in the battle of Custoza, in which the Italian troops were defeated by the Austrian army. This is one of the most important episodes of the Austro-Prussian war, in which Italy and Prussia try to free themselves from Austrian influence.

On March 25, 1860, a royal decree determined the characteristics of the new flag of the Sardinian army, very similar to that desired by Carlo Alberto in 1848, with the addition of a crown above the Savoy coat of arms. This model is also confirmed after the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 and participates in fundamental events in Italian history: the Third War of Independence (1866), which leads to the annexation of Veneto, and the capture of Porta Pia (1870). . The flag remained virtually unchanged until the 1946 referendum which marked the birth of the republican state.

Gentleman of ancient Reggio nobility, after a short military career he joined a Carbonara organization: for this he was sentenced to death in 1822, but managed to escape into exile and became one of Mazzini's closest friends and collaborators. Antimonarchist, a staunch supporter of associations, democracy and the right to education and to vote, he is active in politics and in the dissemination of Mazzinian ideas. He died in Lugano in 1568.

Luca Alinari (Florence 1943-2019) began in the 70s a research on the free combination of objects and figures within fantastic and suspended atmospheres, with neo-dada and Pop art suggestions. Experiment with different painting techniques in which fluorescent colors, decals and photography are the protagonists. During the 1980s he obtained his first official recognition with participation in the Venice Biennale and the Rome Quadrennial. The artist's latest works are colored with the vigor of red, as if to arouse anyone who observes them so that they are aware of what the world is experiencing.

The work is inspired by the flag of the Italian Navy, which bears the coats of arms of the ancient maritime republics. The painting of Tommaso Cascella (Rome 1951) is inclined to the three-dimensional transposition in symbiosis with his bronze sculptures; his intense chromatic compositions are real architectures studded with universal symbols and meanings. Painting and sculpture are treated with the desire to contaminate the sight with touch, the surface of color with a layering of gestures and signs, material inserts. The titles of the works are evidence of a deep passion for books.

Antonio Marras (Alghero 1961) began his career in fashion in 1987, but has always dedicated himself to activities that contaminate art, fashion and photography, in collaboration with artists and photographers such as Gianni Berengo Gardin, Maria Lai, Carol Rama. Regarding this work he says "there are signs that much more than others seem to want to tell ... of struggles, passions, ideals, union. Thus the flag, a piece of cloth, is charged with meanings, releases energy, a voice overcomes the silence of centuries and challenges space and time. Shapes, colors, images send messages in which the people recognize themselves, their roots, the feeling of common belonging

At his debut in 1993 Angelo Davoli (Reggio Emilia 1960–2014) arouses immediate attention, with a figurative painting that breathes mystery, sensitive to the relationship between landscape and disused structures, between pictorial and photographic language. He exhibits in Italy and abroad, and also engages in theatrical scenography in collaboration with Aterballetto and Luciano Ligabue. In this work, part of a project to finance the "Hospital for women and children", Davoli inserts the logo he designed for the hospital, and adds "I protected our flag in a plexiglass container like a placenta, hoping for a new rebirth. "

Luigi Trolli participated in the campaigns of the years 1860 - 61 and 1866

"Bonaparte General in Chief of the Army of Italy. To the Government of Reggio. From the Milan Headquarters, 18 Grape Harvester, Fifth Year of the French Republic ", the poster shows a communication from Napoleon who, as evidence of his admiration for the value shown by the Reggio people in the victory of Montechiarugolo, decides to donate to the city four guns and five hundred rifles. The date is expressed according to the French republican calendar, adopted after the French revolution, and in force until 1805.

Ercole III (1727 - 1803) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1780 to 1796. His action was mainly aimed at continuing the jurisdictional policy initiated by his father Francesco III and at healing the financial distress of the state. The spontaneous dedication of Reggio to the Este family dates back to 1409, when the city, then a free municipality, entrusted itself to Nicolò d’Este on the basis of pacts that guarantee special rights.

Born in Bibbiano (RE) on 11 September 1746, the famous scientist, bibliophile and scholar of local and military history was appointed in 1801 Diplomatic Agent of the Italian Republic at the Swiss Confederation, where he remained for about 12 years. Decorated with the Legion of Honor (1803) and the Cross of the Order of the Iron Crown (1806), he died in Reggio Emilia on 10 September 1822.

On January 26, 1802, the Council of Lyon established the Italian Republic with Milan as its capital. Napoleon is its president, while the vice president is Francesco Melzi d’Eril. Both in the Italian Republic and in the subsequent Kingdom of Italy, some of the most important political offices are held by Reggiani, including Antonio Veneri, Giovanni Paradisi and Carlo Zucchi in particular.

Adopted on 7 January 1797 by the Cispadano Congress of Reggio Emilia, the flag is described in the proceedings as being made up of “three colors, green, white and red”. At the suggestion of Napoleon, the quiver (an oriental-style quiver) and the four arrows are inserted in the center of the flag, to indicate the peoples who had joined the Republic. This historical reconstruction of the first Tricolore is by Ugo Bellocchi (20th century)

A winged boy holds out his hand to a girl dressed in the colors of the French flag. An inscription surrounds the image: “Esse qui bella gerant pro libertate aliorum” (There are those who fight for the freedom of others). The painting decorated a temporary structure set up in Reggio Emilia for the great patriotic celebration of the Peace of Lunéville. Defeated by France and its allies (including the Cisalpine Republic), the Austrian army and the second anti-French coalition accept peace, Britain refuses. Among the agreements concluded, the two parties undertake to respect the independence of the Cisalpine Republic.

Francesco V of Austria-Este, Duke of Modena, Reggio and Guastalla, succeeds his father in 1846; when the revolution broke out, he was forced to flee, only to return to Modena in August 1849. His reign was marked by long commercial, military and administrative negotiations with the Austrian kingdom, in which he tried to protect his sovereignty and the peoples he governs , despite the disproportion between the two parties involved. He definitively abandoned the duchy in 1859, and died in exile in Vienna in 1875.

Handkerchief that belonged to the Garibaldi volunteer from Reggio Emilia, Francesco Chiloni. In March 1859 the Hunters of the Alps Corps was organized into a brigade of about 3,000 volunteers, directly commanded by Giuseppe Garibaldi.

On the button there is an allegorical image linked to the themes of peace. Carlo Ferrarini leads the Reggiana civic guard, assisted by 40 French grenadiers, who, near the castle of Montechiarugolo (RE), forces a column of 150 Austrians to surrender. The episode is remembered above all because it is the first direct confrontation between the Austrian army and an Italian military body, a prelude to the wars of independence. Napoleon, in commenting on the undertaking, defines the two Reggio victims as "the first who had shed their blood for freedom".

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