Cesare Battisti and the Trentino
The hangman placing the noose around Battisti's neck
ment, as is shown by the photograph which is here reproduced, and which was circulated among the popular magazines by the Austrian Government— not being then aware of her own guilt. Nothing is more impressive than the contrast between the Christ-like face of the martyr and the soul-deprived face of the hangman, with its ignoble grin.
His companion and disciple. Dr. Fabio Filzi — another noble figure of a soldier and a martyr — followed a few moments later as young Damiano Chiesa had preceded them two months before.
This most awful crime of Austria caused a mighty sensation throughout the civilized world. In Rome, on the 20th of July, an imposing mass-meeting at the Capitol solemnly swore to win the war and erect a monument to the martyr-hero in the liberated city of Trento as a perpetual reminder to future generations of his sacrifice for Italy.
Every year since then has witnessed imposing public dem-
