From Savoy with Umberto I to Piazza Plebiscito.
Putignano in the period of the Risorgimento
The ancient Corsea was dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II, the main street of the ancient center that starting from the square reached the road that allowed to go out of Porta Barsento. While the other important road that led from the Piazza to Porta Grande was named after Garibaldi. Then, even before the deadly attack of 29 July 1900, the Stradone, the main street of the new part of the town, had been named after Umberto I and his wife Margherita di Savoia had been given the other important road that cut through the Corso to right angle, real thistle and decumanus of the new era! And in 1904, at the newborn Prince of Piedmont, the Piazza at the tip of Corso Umberto I.
To outline other characters and events of the Risorgimento other roads had been named: and therefore we had a via Cavour, via Bixio, via Cairoli, via Mazzini, via Magenta, via S. Martino and also via Custoza and via Goito. Orsini and Savonarola had also been involved in the operation, I do not know if by the way, given that the anarchist Orsini was known for the attempted regicide of Napoleon III who saved himself thanks to the iron breastplate he always carried on then sent him to the guillotine, while the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, even though he was burned at the stake in Florence at the end of the 1400s, had been not only an announcer of grave misfortunes to induce repentance, a faithful supporter of the theocracy!
Finally, a special seal of total adherence to the Risorgimento values was the entitlement to the main square of the new part of the country to the XX Settembre (that is, at the end of the Papal State and the Pope's temporal power).
The most brazen to turn in favor of the Savoy monarchy in 1860, however, just finished the enterprise of the Thousand, he had been the owner of a house overlooking the main street of Via Santa Chiara but with entrance from the alley next to it!