That's odd - I'm just in the middle of reading a book about the Risorgimento, and last night I came to the bit where General Radetzky is putting down the Italian uprising.

Pretty unpleasant too, if this account is accurate:

"The cruelties of the enemy...are well-attested, and are revolting even to hardened twentieth-century consciences. Women were raped and bayoneted, or burnt alive, or buried alive in wells. A child spoked through with a beyoney was pinned to a tree and left to writhe just out of its mothers reach. In the pockets of a Croat were found two female hands, the fingers loaded with rings..." (The Bombs of Orsini, Michael St.John Packe)

And it's such a jolly tune too.