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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alfonso Scirocco is the author of many books on modern Italian history. From 1966 to 2000, he was professor of humanities at University Frederick II in Naples, Italy.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beloved guide to Italian culture and history Tim Parks traces Garibaldi's famous journey across the Apennines in search of the country's past and present. In the summer of 1849 Giuseppe Garibaldi, the legendary hero of guerrilla wars and future architect of a united Italy, was finally forced to concede defeat to the French in his defense of a revolutionary Roman republic. But determined to turn defeat into moral victory, he set out from Rome with...
19) The woman in red
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at sixteen, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. But when she meets the leader of the Brazilian resistance, Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 1839, everything changes. Swept into a passionate affair with the idolized mercenary, Anita's life is suddenly consumed by the plight to liberate Southern Brazil--a struggle that would cost thousands of lives...
20) Viva l'Italia
Publisher
Arrow Academy
Pub. Date
©1961.
Language
Italiano
Description
"Historical film commemorating Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 military campaign leading to the unification of Italy." --
