angioiana The four days of the revolution.
Summary by Delussu Michela and Sabrina Podda the rate of
Luciano Marroccu (on "anti-feudal movements Bicentennial 1796-96 - City of Bono)
From a long historiographical production with plenty of titles led to two different readings of the revolution angioiana:
-the first we see a series of stories, characters and examples that make us proud to be Sardinian.
-second reading emphasizes only 'aspect of modernization. Between 1793 and 1796, Sardinia took place in the modern world to catch up with the great currents of history. We can then consider the revolution angioiana the reflection of the French Revolution.
L 'aspect of the modernization of national and intertwine. Is a very important aspect of the events of 1793-96 that certainly does not appear revolutionary. In early 1793 the French fleet around the Gulf of Cagliari, sent by the Interim Executive Council (the 'governing body formed after the fall of the monarchy). We are at the helm of the Jacobin principle: the French are at war Piedmont, Savoy and decide according to a specific military strategy to attack Sardinia. The French want to win is to leave Sardinia is the Sardinians from the feudal and aristocratic. At this point it is natural that the first defense is made by the nobles and clergy that will push the people to mobilize against the 'French army. The militia troops are mobilized to defend the throne el 'altar. In this case, the defense of the homeland is identified with the defense of tradition. We see that the nobles and bishops who simply wanted the defense of 'order of things will have after the revolution. The mobilization of militia troops do not follow the formal lines of a pre-established organization. The noble recruit militants in villages where they have a certain influence by committing its own resources or those of the clergy. We must point out that there was a real army but a collection of armed gangs, each with its own commander. The viceroy's troops are made up of professional soldiers. The suspicion arises that the lack of decision by which the viceroy Balbiano confronted the French fleet was the result of political calculation and from Turin opens up the possibility of the sale of Sardinia to France for the salvation of the kingdom.
War reveals the lack of grip that 's administration has on society Sardinian Savoyard. The 'French invasion thus brought to light the difficulties. But at the same time active processes before unpredictable. With the threat of 'attack the French are now gathered Stamenti (the ancient parliaments), one for each of the three orders of the Kingdom:
- the displacements of the military nobility.
- him displacements of the Church clergy.
- the real displacements representing the city.
's meeting as he has discussed the restoration of 'ancient constitution of the kingdom, the Regnum Sardiniae.
Now the scenario is facing the displacements. The Sardinian revolution is a revolution of lawyers and intellectuals. Lawyers as Pitzolo, Cabras and Pintor and intellectuals who have the ability to place events in a broader spatial and temporal framework. Know both the old laws of the Kingdom is the story of other revolutions from which they draw lessons and examples. In a second time, we see the wording of the "Five Questions" by the delegates stamentari, trying to deliver them directly to the king. At the heart of these questions is required to reserve the military, ecclesiastical and civil Sardinians, but above that of a regular call, and institutionalization of the displacements. Asserts the rights claiming that they are part of a constitution in Sardinia. As a result of lack of acceptance by the king of the five questions, there is the expulsion of 28 April 1794, the viceroy and the Piedmont from Cagliari first and then the rest of 'island.
The third moment of the revolution is characterized by the first all divisions' internal deployment of Sardinia. These are two divisions: the first is within the grid stamentario. There are those who want to return to 'sort out who Pitzolo and the Marquis of Planargia, and those who want to continue, accepting the' idea of \u200b\u200breplacing Balbiano, but reproduce the objectives of the Five Questions. This period is characterized by a number of plots and assassinations including that of Pitzolo and Planargia. Then there are the Sassari who see the emergence of power stamentario yet another attempt by the Cagliari to assert the primacy of the capital, also disagreed on the anti-feudal reforms proposed by the displacements. On 10 August 1795 is the announcement that Viceroy feudalised villas are invited to express their dissent promising that feudal rights and benefits were considered and those deemed abusive deleted.
There is a difference between feudal lords of the south and north, and from these contrasts was born the fourth period of the revolution characterized by civil war. The situation changed with the announcement that the Viceroy Sassari decide not to give any kind of advertising and with this they can be considered a real revolt. Thus began a bustle of armed men who walk around the island. Francesco Cilloco is the first to be appointed by the displacements to spread the invitation of the Viceroy in the villas Logudoro. This is the time of the peasant revolt, in fact Above the villages of the Cape of effervescence feudal turns into a riot, even law-abiding, and then in the name of the viceroy of the king. On December 28, 1795 ended the march Cilloco enters Sassari, while the barons and representatives of the fleeing stamentaria settle in power. A few months later is another gear, to John Mary Angioy. He is the most authoritative judge of the Royal Audience that manages to combine methods legalists and revolutionary methods. Giommaria Angioy is the main man of the revolution stamentaria but is also part of the peasant revolution. In February 1796 a shipment Sassari Angioy ago when it stops in the villages. He is the alternos that is invested with the powers of the viceroy and consequently those of the king, is also a judge and as such it behaves in every village administering the law and resolving local disputes. Its full statement as a political leader is through a direct relationship, on the other hand, its strength is also based on many reports of patronage that has managed to establish in many villages. When he enters Sassari Giommaria Angioy is not only a lawyer but is the head farmer. Between May and June he began his march to Cagliari, who wants to reaffirm its role as leader of the movement stamentario. Going south is gaining more support without knowing how much the deployment antiangioiano. Against him have turned Efisio Pintor and displacements: the protagonists of the revolution of April 28 antipiemontese representing the moderates of today and they want the return to order. To do this they are willing to sacrifice everything. A striking element at the end of the revolution of Sardinia is the self-denial of the island's ruling elites, the ones that first gave life to the movement of the Five Questions. A particular fact is that just as Angioy is defeated and taken into exile from London comes the news that the King has accepted the Five Questions. Unfortunately there is more autonomy, in fact, a few years after the displacements waiver of the five questions. This sad end of the revolution there Sardinian reflect on what makes the island's ruling elites were weak.