Wilhelm Oberdank, who italianicized his name to Guglielmo Oberdan, was an Italian irredentist executed in 1882 after a failed assassination attempt on the Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.Just before his hanging he cried “Viva l'Italia” (Long live Italy!), estabilishing his reputation as a martyr of the Italian National cause. Statues of him were erected in towns and cities throughout unified Italy.
You can see this bust, sculpted by Ermenegildo Bois in 1928, in piazza dei Mille (The Thousand square), of Garibaldine memoirs.
2 comments:
Qesto lo conosco! ;)
...non sapevo avesse cambiato nome.
Fino a una settimana fa non lo sapevo nemmeno io!
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