The hero of two worlds GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI BIOGRAPHY

The “hero of two worlds” GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI

BIOGRAPHY • Giuseppe Garibaldi was an italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. • • He was born in Nice in 1807 In 1837 he became an hero in South America because he fougth against the Brazil empire. In 1839 he met Ana Ribeiro da Silva( know as Anita) who married in 1842. • • In 1848 he retourned in Italy and he offered his service to Charles Albert of Sardinia in the First War of Indipendence against the Austrians but this war was unsuccerful and his wife, Anita, died.

Anita morente • • • Author Pietro Bouvier Title Anita morente Year 1864

The meeting of Garibaldi with the king to Teano • on 26 October 1860 he met the king Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia on the bridge of Teano

The Redshirts is the name given at the 1089 volunteers who followed Giuseppe Garibaldi during his expedition in the south of Italy. They left from the port of Quarto in the night between the 5 th and 6 th of May 1860 and they arrived in the port of Marsala, in Sicily

Author Orlando Borrani Title Cucitrici di camicie rosse ("Sewing red shirts for the volunteers") Year 1863

The portrait of a redshirt • • • Author Gerolamo Induno Title La Partenza del Garibaldino Year 1860

the Italian unification • • • Author Silvestro Lega Title Portrait of Garibaldi Year 1861 • The redshirts expedition was a success and concluded with a plebiscite that brought Naples and Sicily into the Kingdom of Sardinia, the last territorial conquest before the creation of the Kingdom of Italy on 17 March 1861 • Garibaldi died in Caprera in 1882

The statue of Garibaldi in the Gianicolo, a hill of Rome