 They rebelled against late Romantic maudlin poets like Aleardo Aleardi and Giovanni Prati, Italian Catholic tradition and clericalism, and the Italian government's betrayal of the revolutionary roots of the Risorgimento period.Praga scandalized Italy with his second poetry collection "Penombre" (1864), reminiscent of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal", and Tarchetti with his novel "Una Nobile Follia" (1867) in which he opposed the militarist culture of Italy under the reigning Savoy royal family and in which he propounded his anarchism derived from French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.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).