Milan, afternoon. The excitement of the clash takes hold. The young physicist Paolo Rossignoli overturns Romilli’s carriage. It is perhaps the first of 1,700 barricades that will be erected throughout Milan during the Five Days. Mostly household furniture will be used, but, in one case, even files from the Austrian archives. In front of the Castle, granite slabs, bound with iron chains and covered with earth, are used; at the end of the uprising, 72 Austrian cannonballs will be driven into them.
