18th century… Passo di Lupo: An Italian Bandit 12 Nov 2017 An outlaw’s life was not a merry one: in the 1820s, banditry in Italy was rife; at this time, a young travel writer named Charles Macfarlane was touring the country…
18th century… Mack the Knife: The “True” Story Behind the Song 28 Oct 2017 The popular song Mack the Knife was based upon the story of an eighteenth-century highwayman named Captain Macheath. This post traces the literary life of this fictional character. Most people,…
19th Century… Post-Apocalyptic Bandits: Mary Shelley’s “The Last Man” (1826) 7 Aug 20171 Sep 2017 I am the native of a sea-surrounded nook, a cloud-enshadowed land, which, when the surface of the globe, with its shoreless ocean and trackless continents, presents itself to my mind,…
20th Century… Salvatore Giuliano (1922-1950): The Last Outlaw 3 Jun 20173 May 2018 By Stephen Basdeo Since the unification of Italy in 1861, the island of Sicily, as well as the southern half of the mainland, has always had an ambivalent relationship with…
19th Century… Martina Chapanay (1800-1887): An Argentinian Female Robin Hood 9 Mar 20179 Mar 2017 [Header Image: Courtesy of http://www.taringa.net/posts/info/15548586/Martina-Chapanay-La-Montonera-Federala.html] In this post, we turn to Argentina in the nineteenth century. On 9 July 1816 the United Provinces of South America (which is still one…
18th century… Oleksa Dovbush (1700-1745): Robin Hood of the Ukraine 21 Feb 2017 [Header Image (c) Internet Library of Ukraine] While England has given the world the archetypal image of the noble robber in the form of Robin Hood, one of the things…
