"It is true that I am not a man of letters, and that I do not know how to put in order what I write." I began this work, endeavoring to recount the misfortunes that have devastated our country and our faith, a product of folly and selfishness, not only of religious or The indignation to see the grave errors that have caused the death of so many innocents, is what has prompted me to put them in writing to this day, in which we no longer sacrifice ourselves in Virtues and patriotism, and we are in such a miserable situation that we are in danger of disappearing.
With these words General Macriyanis begins the account of his Memoirs, a singular text of the Neo-Greek letters for their philological and historical value: philological because they are written in a pure, unadulterated language, far from the cultist influences of the time; Historical, because it is a first-person account of the War of Independence, Greek parliamentarism, the arrival of King Otto and the drafting of the first Constitution, a story that, while passionate, tries to keep page-page historical objectivity. But beyond all this, the reader has before him the becoming of the life of a simple man, who at no time silences the deep love for his country and his ideals, as well as the pain of seeing it torn by interests, personalities And the ambition of both the Greek citizens themselves and the foreign Powers.