Collection
This section contains information on the works in Lucca’s Museum of the Risorgimento.
This section contains information on the works in Lucca’s Museum of the Risorgimento.
All the armies fighting in the Great War made massive use of barbed wire. The long trench that for four years split the entire continent of Europe in two was reinforced by barriers comprising barbed wire entanglements known as “chevaux de Frise”, which helped to turn the conflict into a deadly fight for position. The only way to beat the barbed wire entanglements was to create openings in them under...
Produced by the LUCE Institute in 1934 and directed by Roberto Omegna, (1876 – 1948), Gloria presents images of the First World War captured directly on the battlefield by civilian and military cameramen. Omegna, regarded as one of the fathers of scientific and travel documentaries, assembled this visual material to create a faithful, harmonious account of the main phases of the conflict. The director dwells above all on the anonymous...
24 October – 3 November 1918, after a hard-fought battle on Mount Grappa and the central Piave River, an Italian military offensive ended in victory at Vittorio Veneto. On 3 November, the Italians entered Trento and Trieste. On the same day the armistice was signed at the Villa Giusti (Padua) bringing an end to hostilities on the following day. The Victory Address was inscribed on a marble plaque as a...
Uniform belonging to the Garibaldino officer, Tito Strocchi. Born in Lucca into a modest family, Tito Strocchi (Lucca 1846 – Bagni di Lucca, 1879) graduated in law in Pisa in 1866 and a year later was with Garibaldi in Mentana. In Lucca, he was involved in the foundation of the “Association of Veterans of the Battles for the Mother Country”, and established the weekly magazine “Il Serchio”, dedicated to the...
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 audience, ran the girls’ nursery school in Lucca, the women’s experimental university in Florence, the “Vittorio Emanuele II” girls’ boarding school in...
Original manuscripts written by Cleobulina Cotenna (1810 – 1874) are exhibited in a glass case. Born in Lucca into a wealthy family of democrats, Cleobulina, together with her mother Gaetana and husband Gabriello Leonardi di Coreglia, an ardent liberal, converted her Monsanquilici house (Monte San Quirico) into a hospital for persecuted patriots (Guerrazzi, Montanelli, Medici, etc.). She faced police persecution and even prison with courage; she confronted with dignity the...
The painting shows Garibaldi holding the dying Anita in his arms near the Comacchio Marshes, a dramatic image filled with human compassion. Anita, whose full name was Ana Maria De Jesus Ribeiro (1821 – 1849), was born in Santa Caterina in Brazil, the daughter of poor peasants. At the age of only 14 she married a shoemaker, Durante de Aguiera: a marriage destined to be short-lived. Ana, known as Anita,...
Curved blade etched with plant symbols and military insignia. Inscribed in block capitals on the handle below the langets F: HOR……SOLINGER. Classic hussar hilt with langets. Ebony handle with knurling. Iron plated sheath with two rings.