The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-26
RIENZl II.

ROME HoNoRs THE MEMORY OF CIcERUAccHIo,
THE TRIBUNE OF THE pEoPLE-A STRANGE
AND INTERESTING LIFE.
Never since Lars Porsena's host occupied the
Janiculan has that historic hill OF Rome beheid
multitude than that which witnessed on sun
day, the 18th inst. the final interment OF the bones
of Ciceruacchio and his friends OF lS49. Who was
Ciceruacchio? Rather more than forty years ago.
says the London Daily Ne~s, when Bulwer's
"Rienzi" still the rage. English residents in
Rome were familiar with burly. broad-shouldered'
kindly looking bourgeois of their quarter, who sup
piled them with wood i'll winter. with car
riage horses in spring. and with wine all
through the season. He was OF the pure
Roman type. this man. strong buffalo and as
good natured till reused; always ready to share his
earnings. which were large. with the humblest
pauper genial even to joviaty, and never forgetting
he was plebeian. but Roman. Few of his English
friends. and their name legion, suspected that
this stalwart purveyor Tor their daily wants
ana occasional luxuries would in ten years time
develop into a popular leader Of far nobler stamp
than the vain enthusiast whose theatrical career
found congenial narrator in the most artificial Of
vess-that is in fact. the true "last OF the tri-
bunes was not Cola d Rienzi. but Angelo BRUNETTE.
named Ciceruacchlo. The representative Of the
people was born--appropriately-i the Rione del
Popolo the 9th September. 1900. in the out
skirts OF that English quarter known jocularly as
the Ghetto Inglese. As child he was noted for
his well rounded. not to say plump. proportions.
whereon his fond mother gave him the pet name
which stuck to him through life, "Ciceruacchio."
good natured pugnacity was his chief char
acteristic, more often displayed in protecting his
brethren. and. as he grew up. in tanning the
insolence of the Papal gendarmerie to the poor. At
twenty he married handsome. bright-witted girl
~ n md ia hOln pafnr hacan eatO nra
ennobled. He was model Of industry. integrity
and shrewdness. From having been carter OF wine
he came to deal III wine himself. and from that he
to be purveyor OF draught cattle, OF jauning
cars and OF all the articles and commodi-
ties supplied from country to town He
and encouraged the more Intelligent of them
to begin. like himself. on their own account.
With all this he was the most public spirited of
citizens and throughout the despotc reign OF
Gregory XVI. he strove by word and deed 20 keep
alive their selfrespect ana indepenaenee. lowered
Gregorys death (1s46) Ciceruacchio was one Of the
most substantial and revered Of Romans. ADMIRED
the popular MATCHMAKING to the political
demonstration. With the hurried election of Pho
Ponti reversed the whole policy of his predecessor
He opened the prisons setting at liberty all but the
trials He was large in charity. He gave audience
every Thursday to the poorest of the people. This
was man after Ciceruacchio's own heart, and
| already the honest citizen was persuading groups of
| listeners throughout his Rione that the bad times
| had gone. "God," he said 'has ut last sent
beneIactor. Now you see what Pho Mono il capable
| Of"
| SERVING TWO MASTERS.
The gratitude of the Roman people for the first
| instalments OF liberty conceded them by Pho Mono
| was unbounded, and foremost in giving it express
| sion was Observation-Disclosures erecting triumphal
| arches (chehy at his own COST and even with his
| personal labor; now holding banquets at which he
! harangued the guests with his manly glowing eo-
quence, always going about everywhere, backing up
the Pope as the saviour OF society. Yet with
all this, he still the industrious. punctual
negosiaie and the constant friend of the poor. At
the close of the year 1916 the charity of Pic Mono
was q test-a terrible inundation OF the
| neighborhOod under water At daybreak Cicer-
uacchio was out in boat. accompanied by the
eldest OF ms % G an of
the isolated houses beyond the gate. Wherever
tenement hung out signals Of distress the
stalwart arms Of Ciceruacchio might have been seen
plying the and bringing his little ark Of safety
under the window. he would fill the basket lowered
| to him with food and wine enough for another
forty-eight hours. And all the credit of this he
gave to the Pope. whose humble emissary he repre-
scented himself TO be! When the worthy citizen
sent for to receive the thanks His Holiness in the
Quirinal no felt humble before exalted
benetactor that his tongue failed him. and
| he broke down in trying to express his de-
votedness to the Holy Father. But times changed.
| The Popc disappointed those who had most
tanned by the Roman Republic of ls49 against foo
of times its strength Ciceruacchio scarcely
for service in the sorties. He headed sorties him
SET. In view OF the ultimate triumph OF the French
and the necessity Of hsLting them from street to
street. he organized u barricade commission. He
planned and personally assisted III terrifying the
wallis and when attack was dreaded on the
an admirable giacis at the Porta Maggiore.
To supply the besieged with victuals he would ride
stealthily out OF the city at nightfa and with his
two sons he would succeed in driving in a herd of
milch before day break by devious paths known
to himself He gave money to those LETT widows and
| orphans by the French shot, and while he and his
two fighting before the walls his wife An
META was preparing bandages and lint for the
lad NJ hon, Last fha fiftI-
ent Assembly eapitulated. Ciceruacchio wept
and was for some time almost insane with
| gref but when Garibadi reviewed his
| little army in the piazza of st. Peters before
| marching out of Rome to avoid tho disgrace of
two sons were the first to respond to the Generals
| words. al have nothing to give you but hunger,
privation and battle; the bare ground for bed
and the suns heat tor retreshment on the weary
march, Let all who still have faith in Italy
follow mel" Thus among the 1000 defenders
of Rome who marched out through the
Porta di San Giovanni Cceruaccho and his
sons, leaving for the last time the Rome they had
never quilted before. and the wife and mother An
netta their dearest tie on earth. The tate of the
little army is soon told. 1t fought its way through
hostile Tuscany till it entered the Republic of San
Marine, where Garibaldi, with q memorable speech
disbanaed it. The majority thereafter capitua,cd
to the Anstrians. but Garibald and about two hun.
dred followers eludod their blockade and Oh the LIST
of August reached Cesenatico.
HERO AND MARTYR.
| Thirteen barks procured, and Garibadi
with his wife and Ciceruacchio with his
soon on the high They sighted by the
Austrian cruisers and all taken except the cratt III
which GariDaidi and Ciceruacchio were ON board.
On regaininY the shore al Mesola the now reduced
band separatcd-Garibaldi with his fever stricken
wife to havenna. Ciceruacchio, with his son Luigi
and i've comrades. toward Chioggia. At first
faithful guide conducted the latter to Presa
veniera. and did not desert thom till he had shown
them what point they might safely cross the Pc.
/ They next fell in with traitor called Chicrghin.
who, having advised them to take n certain route.
stole OF to inform the Austrians. But Ciccruacchio
suspected him and made for Bosco Mora. There
they stopped to- take food ut tho .house OF the
brothers Giolo. one of whom. however also played
the spy and informed against them at tho
J Austrian station of Ca-repolo. Again Cccruac-
chic and his party got clear away. and
bribed passing compatriot with 100 scudi to con-
duct them the Pc. toward Chioggia Venice.
The money acceptd. but the false guide left
them IN the lurcb. again to inform the Austr.ans.
Wandering in what they conceived to be the right
direction they reached Donzcla. and entering an
inn in the suburbs they shortly after arrested.