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Tuscia, land of knights, pilgrims and brigands
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Tuscia, land of cavaliers and bandits



The legends are not missed. The robbers who from '200 upto the beginning of '900 stormed the country of Upper Lazzio, seemed like personalities escaped from the sets of a soap opera. The first one to be made known for ferocity and greed were the following: Erpita, Mercotullio, Fumetta, Bustrenga and Marintacca who, not being able to ensure popular support, ended either by being killed or behind bars. One needs to wait for still a few centuries more, between 1875 and the beginning of '900, to introduce the beloved personalities of the popular fantasy, as, for example, Domenichino tiburzi, native of Cellere, also known as the "King of Limone". His strategy to obtain the connivance of part of the land was based on dispensing, almost in the same measure, gestures of ferocity and to the others of great generosity. In the myth, the fame of the great lover also reenters, his passion for music and friend of painters and artists. In this way, Tiburzi, managed to survive for 27 years on the spot. His best friend, the Curator, was said to be a robber, born to Francese and known for his work of force in the salt Waters of Tarqunia, where the two fugitives were always together. The Curator had a nickname, a sort of religious mania who made to turn to a lot of saints and prayer books. Another active one on this territory was the robber, Velero, known for his cruelty and stature. Arousing a lot of fear, one narrates, one of jis victims' veins were cut so that he could rob her. Her end was dramatic and legendary. She died, infact, in the hands of the Curator, who had endless love but, at the same time, threatened wit a double barreled gun. But to the eyes of the people of the zone, already harassed by poverty and malaria, the thefts and crimes which marked these personalities did not constitute certain exceptional events, their gesture appeared as desperate gestures, more than revolutionary actions.




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