Risorgimento COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

The soldiers on horseback are on a lookout, on a silent, immoted sunny day, with shadows that stand out against a white wall, and in the background a cloudless sky. This canvas that Giovanni Fattori painted in 1874 is like an icon and many believe that it inspired even Dino Buzzati's imagination of the Tatar Desert: one of these knights — who knows — could be Lieutenant Drogo who awaits an enemy who never comes to the Bastiani fortress.

Risorgimento COUNTRY SQUIRE MAGAZINE

BY MAX WALLERIf we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.” – Tancredi Pleasantly surprised by the quality of the new television series The Leopard (Netflix), which has had to contend with comparisons to the aristocratic perfection of the original Visconti movie starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale, I am currently musing on 19th-century Italy—specifically the Risorgimento movement led by Garibaldi—and …