The Motorcycle Diaries (book) not the only person that was editing and reshaping his notes. While Paulo Drinot contends that the Cuban government, as well as others, reworked the texts for self-fashioning or political benefits. However, Drinot also points out that Guevara's introduction explicitly mentions how the notes are "reorganized" and "polished", and that such a practicality should in no way undermine its utility as a historical source. The Motorcycle Diaries (book) The Motorcycle Diaries () is a memoir that traces the early travels of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist. Leaving
Prince Alberto of Naples and Sicily in 1796, by 1798 conflict was again fierce. It was decided that the royal family flee to the Kingdom of Sicily. The family left Naples on 21 December 1798 on board , a British Royal Navy vessel which was in turn protected by two Neapolitan warships. It was on board "Vanguard" that Alberto died of exhaustion on Christmas Day aged 6. He was buried in Palermo soon after the family arrived there; his funeral was the first official engagement his family attended in Sicly. He died on the same day as his cousin Maria Amalia of Austria Prince Alberto of