Garibaldi family today
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Note: "Risorgimento" (Italian meaning revival, or resurgence) is the name commonly associated with the Italian unification movement which took place from maybe 1815 until 1871. I am not sure, but the movement may have taken its name from the liberal newspaper il Risorgimento, founded in 1847 by Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861), another one of the key figures in the Italian movement.
Back to Garibaldi.
There is no doubt about it, Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) saw a lot of the world during his long and active life, a life of adventure, action, danger and revolution, the stuff of legends. Born in Nice--the city is now part of France as a result of a deal between France and Piedmont-Sardinia for French support in the Piedmont's 1860 war against Austria, which is kind of discussed below--Garibaldi was born into a family of sailors during the upheavals of the Napoleonic wars. He eventually took to the sea, even as a ship's captain, but his life changed forever in April 1833 when he visited the Russian city of Taganrog on the Black Sea. There he met an Italian immigrant who
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The Life of General Garibaldi by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Translated from his private papers; with the history of his splendid exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the present time.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Italian patriot and general (1807–1882)
"Garibaldi" redirects here. For other uses, see Garibaldi (disambiguation) and Giuseppe Garibaldi (disambiguation).
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi (GARR-ib-AHL-dee, Italian:[dʒuˈzɛppeɡariˈbaldi]ⓘ;[note 1] 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to Italian unification (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland", along with Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy and Giuseppe Mazzini.[1] Garibaldi is also known as the "Hero of the Two Worlds" because of his military enterprises in South America and Europe.[2]
Garibaldi was a follower of the Italian nationalist Mazzini and embraced the republican nationalism of the Young Italy movement.[3] He became a supporter of Italian unification under a democratic republican government. However, breaking with Mazzini, he pragmatically allied himself with the monarchist Cavour and Ki
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