On June 28, 1857, Carlo Pisacane's expedition with his three hundred landed at Sapri. The goal was to lift the people against the Bourbons in Southern Italy and then be able to start a project to unify the Peninsula. Things went differently: the conspirators did not find the rebellious masses they hoped for waiting for them, on the contrary they were faced by the local populations, in particular the peasants, who had long been aware of the landing of a gang of criminals.