Giuseppe Buttà
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Giuseppe Buttà (4 January 1826 – 1886) was an Italian presbyter, political writer and memoirist.
Biography
Giuseppe Buttà was born in Naso, Sicily. In the '40s he was ordained priest and in 1854 he obtained the post of military chaplain of the Bourbon army, being assigned to the Penal Bath of Santo Stefano. In 1859, he was assigned to the 9th Battalion Hunters commanded by Major Ferdinando Beneventano del Bosco, stationed at Monreale in Sicily.
In April 1860, during the revolt of Gancia, his house near Monreale was sacked by a mob, shouting "Long live Italy". After the Garibaldi landing at Marsala, Buttà participated in the entire military campaign, following his battalion in the inexorable retreat from Sicily to Gaeta, and was an eyewitness to many historical events, including the Battle of Milazzo and the clashes under the walls of Capua and the Battle of the Volturno. He was present during the capitulation of Gaeta and the surrender of the fortress. Following the proclamation of the unity of Italy, Buttà was forced into exile as a suspected pro-Bourbon conspirator after a short period of detention.
After a period spent in Rome, Buttà obtained permission to return home, and in Naples he began a career as a writer, producing at first the memoirs of the expedition of the Thousand (Un viaggio da Boccadifalco a Gaeta) which still remains his most famous work, and later a historical essay (I Borboni di Napoli al cospetto di due secoli) and a novel (Edoardo e Rosolina, o le conseguenze del 1860).
Buttà, alongside Giacinto de' Sivo, is perhaps the most famous among the pro-Bourbon legitimist writers. His work aroused the interest on the part of Leonardo Sciascia (editor of a 1985 reprint of Viaggio) and the enthusiasm of Carlo Alianello, a noted meridionalist novelist.
Works
- Un viaggio da Boccadifalco a Gaeta: memorie della rivoluzione dal 1860 al 1861 (1875; 1966; 1985; 2009)
- I Borboni di Napoli al cospetto di due secoli (1877; 1965; 2012)
- Edoardo e Rosolina o le conseguenze del 1860 (1880; 2011)
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