Talk:Fra Diavolo

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This is seriously biased. It gets major parts of Pezza's life wrong, and takes a very pro-French view of events in Naples during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic invasions.--Al-Nofi 16:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I think you're right, or at least the Italian sources are way less critic of him, and if you ever go to Itri you'll find his name everywhere as a local hero and patriot. The original source, the Britannica, may have been influenced by the French accounts. For instance I can't find any reference to his arrest by Naselli [1] nor to his excesses, except from Britannica and works based on it, while his murders before becoming a brigand are detailed by many sources. --Εξαίρετος (msg) 16:08, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I've got a raft of material on Pezza, a fellow Itrano, but many demands on my time. You're right about the reliance on French material. Nevertheless, he was pretty ferocious during the 1799 campaign. He calmed down a lot by 1806. Piero Pieri, the distinguished military historian, says he had a veritable genius for guerrilla warfare.--Al-Nofi 22:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I've been making some changes. Hope you like it. --Al-Nofi (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)--Al-Nofi (talk) 12:22, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

So most of the information in the current Britannica article [2] is just false French propaganda? Should the wikipedia article mention something about the French slander or do biographical articles normally just omit any mention of that sort of thing? 42engineer (talk) 19:53, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

The link to Sydney Smith should point to the Admiral not the author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Smith_(Royal_Navy_officer) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:D016:F00:69D2:99D9:A7CA:5EC6 (talk) 05:38, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Diavolo

The usage and primary topic of Diavolo is under discussion, see talk:Diavolo Dance Theater -- 70.51.203.69 (talk) 03:47, 25 June 2015 (UTC)