Sicily was brought under control, but peasant discontent was considerably more widespread than this, and far from appeased; it found expression in the revolt of the Siclian Fasci at the beginning of the 1890s. Numbering 300,000 sharecroppers, agricultural labourers and small farmers, they named themselves Fasci, ‘bundles’, because while anyone can break a single stick nobody can snap a whole bundle. They mingled socialist ideas with religious millenarianism,
