The occupants of Savoia di Lucania, a municipality of slightly more than a thousand people situated in the province of Potenza, persist in using the term "salviani" to refer to one another, notwithstanding the fact that the town has been known as Salvia for the past nearly 150 years. Even the Municipality's banner has a sage plant, which grows freely and naturally in these parts. "These are the only things we have left of our history, which has otherwise been completely erased", declares the mayor. On July 3, 1879, King Umberto I signed a decree changing the town's name from "Salvia" to "Savoia" di Lucania, after Giovanni Passannante, an anarchist born in Salvia, attempted to knife him during a visit to Naples. "It was an unacceptable imposition of the monarchy, which decided to punish an entire community for a non-existent crime: being fellow citizens of a man who wanted to kill the king," explained the historian Giuseppe Galzerano. Almost 150 years later, in Savoy of Lucania, the topic remains open and is being contested during the electoral campaign for the administrative elections, which will be held on June 8 and 9. The pro-Salvia committee believes it is time to end what they call "a colossal injustice" by reinstating the country's original name.