The romantic ideal of an Italian bandit — a nineteenth-century engraving of Rosolino Pilo. The illustration conies from “Hero on a Stolen Horse: The Highwayman and his Brothers-in-Arms, the Bandit and the Bushranger,” by Hilary and Mary Evans (Muller, 174 pp, index $18,95). The book sweeps through a diverting field from Robin Hool to Butch Cassidy. Dick Turpin and Ned Kelly have their places. It ends with an account of the Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who flourished 20 years ago and is said to have had engraved on his guns: “I can take care of my enemies, but God protect me from my friends.” Like his predecessors. Guiliano became something of a legend; a fair collection of bandit legends survive in this diverting book.
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123The romantic ideal of an Italian bandit — a nineteenth-century engraving of Rosolino Pilo. The illustration conies from “Hero on a Stolen Horse: The Highwayman and his Brothers-in-Arms, the Bandit and the Bushranger,” by Hilary and Mary Evans (Muller, 174 pp, index $18,95). The book sweeps through a diverting field from Robin Hool to Butch Cassidy. Dick Turpin and Ned Kelly have their places. It ends with an account of the Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Guiliano, who flourished 20 years ago and is said to have had engraved on his guns: “I can take care of my enemies, but God protect me from my friends.” Like his predecessors. Guiliano became something of a legend; a fair collection of bandit legends survive in this diverting book. Press, 27 May 1978, Page 17
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