¿Reaccionarios o liberales? ¿Indisciplinados, inmorales, cobardes, asesinos y ladrones o soldados intachables?
2014; Instituto de Historia y Cultura Militar; Issue: 115 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2530-1950
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Studies in Latin America
ResumoespanolLas tropas espanolas que acudieron a los Estados Pontificios, en 1849, para restaurar a Pio IX, fueron acusadas de liberales por sus aliados los militares franceses; mientras que la historiografia italiana contemporanea a los hechos, basicamente escrita por autores comprometidos con la republica romana de 1849, les acusaron de reaccionarios, indisciplinados, inmorales, cobardes, ladrones, sodomitas, violadores, asesinos de ninos... Acusaciones que aun hoy en dia son publicadas como tales en la historiografia italiana del Risorgimento. Pero, ?que hay de cierto en ellas? ?Cuando se produjeron? ?Por quien y por que? A estas y otras preguntas similares pretende responder este articulo reconstruyendo la vida cotidiana de nuestros soldados a traves de la documentacion original. EnglishThe Spanish troops that journeyed to the Papal States in 1849 for restoring Pius IXth, were criticized as liberals by his allies, the French militaries. However, the contemporary Italian historiography, mainly written by authors committed to the Roman Republic of 1849, held them as reactionary, insubordinate, immoral, coward, thieving, sodomitic, raping, children killing… These charges are still divulged currently by the Italian Risorgimento historiography. Yet, how much in them is true? Where did those charges come from? Who were responsible for them? And, why did they come about? This article seeks to answer these and related questions by reenacting the daily life of the Spanish soldiers through the original documents.
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