"Historical Memoirs of the Siege of Missolonghi by Giovanni Romey edited by Alessandro Ferranti" a review by Carlo Coppola
A rare first-hand testimony from the Greek War of Independence Historical Memoirs of the Siege of Missolonghi by Giovanni Romey , edited by Alessandro Ferranti : A Rare First-Hand Testimony from the Greek War of Independence There are books that need no invented narrative. They simply restore a voice that time was about to swallow. Memorie storiche dello assedio di Mesolongi (Historical Memoirs of the Siege of Missolonghi), the original text by Giovanni Romey and edited by Alessandro Ferranti — since 2025 the Ambassador of Italy to Yerevan — belongs to this rare category. It is neither a historical novel nor a reconstruction written with the comfortable distance of two centuries. First and foremost, it is a direct testimony: the gaze of a man who lived one of the most dramatic episodes of the Greek War of Independence — which saw in Ioannis Kapodistrias its most radiant hero — from a profoundly contradictory position. Between 1825 and 1826, the siege of Missolonghi became the symbol...
