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Women and Brigands (Italian: Donne e briganti) is a 1950 French-Italian historical melodrama adventure film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Maria Mauban and Jean Chevrier. It is based on the story of the legendary guerilla fighter Fra Diavolo, who led a major uprising against French forces in Naples during the ...
Both men and women took up arms. [3] Brigands launched attacks, not just against the Italian authorities and the landowners, but also against common people, [9] frequently looting villages, towns and farms, and committing armed robberies against both individuals and groups, including farmers, townspeople and rival brigand bands. [9]
Brigands: The Quest for Gold: With Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Michela De Rossi, Marlon Joubert, Ivana Lotito. In mid-19th-century southern Italy, a woman forced to go on the run transforms from dutiful wife to the ruthless leader of a group of bandits.
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28. Juli 2022 · Brigand and young Italian peasant girl in conversation at a fountain, watercolor on paper, by Carl Goebel. BRIGAND – BRIGANTE: HISTORIC USE. Words have a way of changing their meaning. In the Middle Ages, an Italian brigante was a type of foot soldier, an adventurous member of a mercenary unit.
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The term bandit (introduced to English via Italian around 1776) originates with the early Germanic legal practice of outlawing criminals, termed *bamnan (English ban). The legal term in the Holy Roman Empire was Acht or Reichsacht, translated as "Imperial ban". In modern Italian, the equivalent word "bandito" literally means banned or a banned pers...
Social bandit
"Social banditry" is a term invented by the historian Eric Hobsbawm in his 1959 book Primitive Rebels, a study of popular forms of resistance that also incorporate behaviour characterized as illegal. He further expanded the field in the 1969 study Bandits. Social banditry is a widespread phenomenon that has occurred in many societies throughout recorded history, and forms of social banditry still exist, as evidenced by piracy and organized crimesyndicates.
Americas
1. Banditry in Chile 2. Cangaço, banditry in Northeast Region, Brazil
Asia
1. Dacoity, Hindi term for banditry 2. Honghuzi 3. Shanlin 4. Thuggee
Europe
1. Abrek, Anti-Cossack/Russian guerilla raiders in the North Caucasus, especially Chechnya 2. Bagaudae, bandits around the Pyrenees in the Roman Empire 3. Betyárs, bandits in Kingdom of Hungary 4. Border reivers 5. Brigandage in the Two Sicilies, bandits in South Italy (1861-65) 6. Hajduks, bandits in the Balkans 7. Kirdzhalis 8. Klepht, anti-Ottoman insurgents in Greece and Cyprus 9. Rapparee, Irish guerrillas during the 1690s Williamite war 10. Sardinian banditry 11. Uskoks, Croatian Habsbu...
19. Juli 2018 · The screams and the wailing of the women who watched the soldiers torching their villages and butchering their men also make history. 1 Among these heroes figure the brigands, who fought for their “beloved” kingdom against an invader hungry for territory, blood, and wealth.
Cartimandua was the ruler of the Brigantes, an Iron Age people of northern Britain, and the first documented queen to reign in part of the British Isles. She ruled over a large area and became an important ally of the Roman Empire during the conquest.
