Milan. The Italian flag flies over the City Hall. Three hundred patriots (or rebels, depending on your side) are barricaded inside. Only about fifty of them have any kind of weapon. The Austrians are preparing to storm the City Hall. A heroic yet reckless charge attempts to stop them. It is led by the meek Professor Paolo Boselli, founder and director of the Institute on Via Bossi, where Milan’s finest youth studies. Boselli and those following him are impaled by bayonets. No one dares leave the City Hall. Eventually, they all surrender to the Austrian assault. Only Antonio Oliva manages to escape. But the situation has already worsened: around thirty Milanese have already died.
