Giuseppe Garibaldi

By Martegana, Giuseppe

Book Id: WPLBN0000191749
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Giuseppe Garibaldi
Author:	Martegana, Giuseppe
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
Collections:	Government Library Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt: After Giuseppe Garibaldi’s death in 1882, a group of Wash- beginnings to become one of Italy’s fore-ington, D.C., residents of Italian descent formed the most military heroes. Born in 1807 in Nice, Garibaldi became a sailor, a merchant cap-Society for a Monument to Garibaldi. They commissioned tain, and an officer in the Piedmont-Sardinia Giuseppe Martegana, an Italian artist living in Paris, to navy. In 1834 he fled to France after partic-create a bust to commemorate the patriot. In a letter to ipating in an unsuccessful mutiny, fomented the president of the Senate dated December 14, 1887, Dr. Tullio dein part to spark a republican revolution in Piedmont-Sardinia. By 1836 Garibaldi was Suzzara-Verdi offered the Garibaldi bust, executed in Italian marble, living in South America, where he gained to the United States. He asked on behalf of the society that it be accepted fame as a revolutionary mercenary fighting “as a link in the chain of sympathy that all free men feel for the champions of liberty and popular government.” The work also was presented with his band of “Redshirts.” Garibaldi as an expression of Italian achievement in sculpture. On August 23,and his men joined the Risorgimento, a movement to unify the disparate Italian 1888, the Senate approved the acquisition, resolving that “the Senate...

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