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Garibaldi: Citizen of the World Hardcover - 2007

by Alfonso Scirocco; Allan Cameron (Translator)


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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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"The most difficult achievement for anyone writing on Garibaldi is to compose a biography that does not sound like a novel or a legend but at the same time captures one of the most extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century. Alfonso Scirocco has succeeded in this task. He combines historical depth with a writing style that is both elegant and captivating."--Maurizio Viroli, author of Niccolò's Smile: A Biography of Machiavelli

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  • Title Garibaldi: Citizen of the World
  • Author Alfonso Scirocco; Allan Cameron (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, UK
  • Date 2007-09-02
  • ISBN 9780691115405 / 0691115400
  • Weight 1.73 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.44 x 1.33 in (23.93 x 16.36 x 3.38 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Italy
  • Library of Congress subjects Garibaldi, Giuseppe, Italy - History - 1849-1870
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007013323
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/15/2007, Page 20
  • Books & Culture, 11/01/2008, Page 36
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/15/2007, Page 717
  • New York Review of Books, 06/26/2008, Page 42

About the author

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.
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