CARBONERIA TO AGEROLA

On the political plan to Agerola risvegliò sorda the fight between opposite factions. The Agerolesi that inneggiavano to the monarchy brooded in heart the hope of a large change to the light of the borbonico consolidation, those that they had made the inspiring's, ideals of the Neapolitan Republic own, disappointed brooded in the shadow, but ready to pass to the action.

 

The Decurionato was struck in defense of the king. To the movement liberal-carbonaro. that by now a P2o spreaded ovunque and that gave beginning to the immense risorgimentale process, they joined don Giuseppe Naclerio, parish priest of S. Peter Apostle of the Pianillo country house, don Melchiorre Acampora, parish priest of the Campora country house, don Vincenzo Villani, parish priest of S. Matteo Apostolo in the Bomerano country house and some citizens, between which Costantino and Salvatore Fusco and Ferdinand Avitabile.

The Decurionato was struck in defense of the king. To the movement liberal-carbonaro. that by now a spreaded everywhere and that gave beginning to the immense risorgimentale process, they joined don Giuseppe Naclerio, parish priest of S. Peter Apostle of the Pianillo country house, don Melchiorre Acampora, parish priest of the Campora country house, don Vincenzo Villani, parish priest of S. Matteo Apostolo in the Bomerano country house and some citizens, between which Costantino and Salvatore Fusco and Ferdinando Avitabile.

 

We will later on see them to be excluded from lists for the formation of the City Guard because in odore of carboneria. While to Vico Equense two sections rose to carbonare and to Castellammare they happened quite of the commotions.

The agerolese Decurionato from part its reaffirmed the fidelity to the king. To the explosion of the motions to Naples of the 1 or July the 1820 our communal authorities organized and sended in that city a company of Legionari to the commando of the captain Giovanni Amatruda and of the lieutenant Salvatore Avitabile, because they collaborated with the Borbonici in the repression of gasps you of freedom of the people who had asked the constitution. The participation of the Company decided from the Decurionato turns out known little, but the happened eclatante episode to its is famous re-enters to Agerola. To the issolution of the Company, the crews in equipment to the legionari scomparvero mysteriously in order to end, some in the hands of the agerolesi criminals, others between them row of the local patriots. While after the birth of the Carboneria to Agerola the movement of the Giovine Italy rose also. And it was felt to speak about republic. The craftsman of the spread of the revolutionary ideas between the agerolese cultured youth was ours concittadino Antonio De Stefano, merchant in Naples. The De Stefano, convinced of the goodness of the mazziniano thought, supported bravely and generous the demand for the Constitution.

Arrested and tried, it was condemned to the jail with isolation in the island of Ventotene. Freed as a result of the arrival of Garibaldi to Naples, the De Stefano succeeded to make part of the National Guard in order to strike itself against brigandage.