Storia della Riviera del Garda

The book is published at the initiative of Tignale Municipality (Brescia) to commemorate the 4th centenary of the cruel battle which took place on the 17th August 1617 in the mountains above. A day which was soon recorded in the majestic ex-voto describing the death of the great outlaw Giovanni Beatrice (Zanzanù), which occurred between the two streams in the Monible valley, and today preserved in the Madonna di Montecastello sanctuary-

Il libro è pubblicato su iniziativa del comune di Tignale (Brescia) per ricordare il quarto centenario della cruenta battaglia svoltasi il 17 agosto 1617 nei monti soprastanti. Un giorno che, di lì a poco, venne ricordato nel maestoso ex-voto ancor oggi esistente nel santuario della Madonna di Montecastello, in cui è descritta la morte del grande fuorilegge Giovanni Beatrice (Zanzanù), avvenuta tra i due ruscelli che scendono lungo la valle delle Monible.

The book is published at the initiative of Tignale Municipality (Brescia) to commemorate the 4th centenary of the cruel battle which took place on the 17th August 1617 in the mountains above. A day which was soon recorded in the majestic ex-voto describing the death of the great outlaw Giovanni Beatrice (Zanzanù), which occurred between the two streams in the Monible valley, and today preserved in the Madonna di Montecastello sanctuary. Giovanni Beatrice, similarly to his uncle Giovan Francesco Beatrice
called Lima, can be considered a symbolic figure of banditry, which was widespread in many Mediterranean countries in modern history. The strong repressive actions carried out against him contributed somehow
to further foster his bandit fame, which over his lifetime had grown so much that allowed him to go down in myth. The humblest people on the Western cost of Lake Garda found in him a steady beacon.

The paper dwell upon the ambush that some vicious merchants of the Lake of Garda organized in the night of february 13rd 1609 against the bandit Giovanni Beatrice (Zanzanù) and his companions at Riva del Garda. The story is narrated in the dossier kept in the Venetian archive of Frari and instructed by the bounty killers recruited by Alberghino Alberghini and other merchants of Salò and Desenzano.