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Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice on 4 July 1807. Known as the hero of the two worlds for the wars he fought in Latin America, he supported the ideals of liberty and independence from a young age. In 1848, Garibaldi defended the Roman Republic and was subsequently...
Ana Maria De Jesus Ribeiro (1821 – 1849) from Brazil married Garibaldi in Montevideo in 1842 and gave birth to their children Menotti, Teresita and Ricciotti. In 1848 the mother and children followed Garibaldi to Italy. In February 1849 Anita joined her husband in Rome as the Republic’s...
One of the key protagonists of the Italian Risorgimento was born in Genoa on 22 June 1805: Giuseppe Mazzini. Mazzini, a politician, soldier and Carbonari supporter, lived much of his life in exile. In 1831, Mazzini founded Young Italy with a view to the emancipation of Italy from...
(Turin 1820 – Rome 1878). King of Sardinia from 1849 to 1861 and King of Italy from 1861 to 1878 he was the son and successor or Carlo Alberto. He acceded to the throne at a time of great difficulty for the State and the House of Savoy....
(Turin 1844 – Monza 1900). King of Italy from 1878 to 1900, he was the son and successor of Vittorio Emanuele II. He immediately acquired the nickname of the “Good King” for visiting Naples in person during a cholera epidemic in 1884 and for abolishing the death penalty...
(Turin 1810 – 1861). Sent by his family to follow an army career, he was an officer in the Kingdom of Sardinia’s army until 1831. Of liberal views, he travelled in western Europe and brought back new ideas to the family farm in Leri. He was a member...
I burn with desire for a varied new life full of emotions. I yearn to be in the fray and know that I am in the midst of danger. The life we lead is a life of fools; at the age of twenty we long for a life...
Born in Lucca into a wealthy family with democratic views, together with her mother Gaetana and husband Gabriello Leonardi di Coreglia, an ardent liberal, Cleobulina Cotenna (1810 – 1874) converted her Monsanquilici house (Monte San Quirico) into a hospital for persecuted patriots (Guerrazzi, Montanelli, Medici, etc.). She faced...
Luisa Amalia Paladini (1810 – 1872), a scholar and teacher from Lucca, belonged to that large band of ‘plotters’ of the Risorgimento who found themselves excluded from the political and institutional structures of the new State. She published collections of poems, collaborated with newspapers addressed to a female...
Antonio Mordini (Barga, 1819 – Montecatini 1902), after graduating in jurisprudence in Pisa, he moved to Florence in 1843 and set up a secret society with republican leanings. He fought in the 1st War of Independence and after Leopoldo II fled to Gaeta, he supported the provisional government...
