Garibaldi
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Garibaldi

Citizen of the World: A Biography

  1. 456 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Garibaldi

Citizen of the World: A Biography

About this book

What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary, soldier, politician, and greatest figure in the fight for Italian unification, Garibaldi (1807-1882) brought off almost as many dramatic exploits in the Americas as he did in Europe, becoming an international freedom fighter, earning the title of the "hero of two worlds," and making himself perhaps the most famous and beloved man of his century. Alfonso Scirocco's Garibaldi is the most up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and convincing biography of Garibaldi yet written. In vivid narrative style and unprecedented detail, and drawing on many new sources that shed fresh light on important events, Scirocco tells the full story of Garibaldi's fascinating public and private life, separating its myth-like reality from the outright myths that have surrounded Garibaldi since his own day.

Scirocco tells how Garibaldi devoted his energies to the liberation of Italians and other oppressed peoples. Sentenced to death for his role in an abortive Genoese insurrection in 1834, Garibaldi fled to South America, where he joined two successive fights for independence--Rio Grande do Sul's against Brazil and Uruguay's against Argentina. He returned to Italy in 1848 to again fight for Italian independence, leading seven more campaigns, including the spectacular capture of Sicily. During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln even offered to make him a general in the Union army.

Presenting Garibaldi as a complex and even contradictory figure, Scirocco shows us the pacifist who spent much of his life fighting; the nationalist who advocated European unification; the republican who served a king; and the man who, although compared by contemporaries to Aeneas and Odysseus, refused honors and wealth and spent his last years as a farmer.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Sailing the Mediterranean
  8. Chapter 2: From Conspiracy to Exile
  9. Chapter 3: The Rio Interlude
  10. Chapter 4: Privateer
  11. Chapter 5: In Rio Grande
  12. Chapter 6: Loves, Friendships, and Amusements
  13. Chapter 7: The Costa Brava Expedition
  14. Chapter 8: Montevideo
  15. Chapter 9: San Antonio de Salto
  16. Chapter 10: His Fame Spreads
  17. Chapter 11: Italy in 1848: The General Call to Arms
  18. Chapter 12: The Rome Events of 1849
  19. Chapter 13: The Bold Defiance of 1849
  20. Chapter 14: The Gray Years
  21. Chapter 15: In the King’s Service
  22. Chapter 16: Political Frustrations and Disappointments in Love
  23. Chapter 17: The Epic Campaign of the Thousand
  24. Chapter 18: The Dictator of Sicily
  25. Chapter 19: Master of a Kingdom
  26. Chapter 20: From the Solitude of Caprera to the Drama of Aspromonte
  27. Chapter 21: Triumph in London
  28. Chapter 22: Bezzecca, Mentana, and Dijon
  29. Chapter 23: Pacifism, Socialism, and Democracy
  30. Chapter 24: The Final Years: Family, Literary Activities, and Financial Concerns
  31. Chapter 25: Epilogue
  32. Chronology of Events
  33. Bibliography
  34. Index