 In the barracks of the Italian Army officers had bonfires with Tarchetti's books to give "the example" to many young soldiers who identified with Tarchetti's protests (Tarchetti had originally volunteered for the army, but changed his mind and was later discharged because of insubordination and also because of his failing health—after being sent to fight "Brigandage" in the south, which he saw as a cruel colonialist war of Piedmont against the recently annexed south of Italy).Boito produced the poetry collection "Il Libro Dei Versi", the musical fable "Re Orso" and memorable short-stories like "L'Alfier Nero".In the late 1860s he detached himself from the movement, moved on to more conservative positions and was even made Senator of The Kingdom of Italy in 1914, while Faccio suffered a nervous breakdown and ended in the same mental institution where his father was an inmate (bizarrely enough they both died on the same day in 1891).