They "arrived on a Sunday morning, declared King Victor Emanuel deposed and [burned] the archives," leaving the innkeeper the note: "In the name of the Social Revolution, the Mayor of Lentino is ordered to pay twenty-eight lire to Ferdinando Orso for food furnished...on 8/4/1877"
'In the name of the Social Revolution, the Mayor of Lentino is ordered to pay twenty-eight lire to Ferdinando Orso for food furnished to the band that entered Lentino on April 8, 1877.'
There is this series of pretty milquetoast heroes children's stories from the twentieth century, some better than others: David Bowie, Pélé, Stephen Hawking, Marie Curie.
Thinking I might start a list of the heroes we need children's books about.
So much I didn't know in here about Charles the traditionalist urban planner; so fitting that the result is as far from the radical elements of his environmentalism and localism as possible. Also, could they have thought of a more fake English name than Poundsbury?