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THE publication, somewhat earlier than was expected, of Garibaldi’s Autobiography will revive interest in that extraordinary man, and in that crisis through which Europe has been passing ever since the destruction of the Bastille marked the fall of feudalism. Penetrating as deeply as we can towards the heart of this transformation, we must declare that our age only half knows itself. It may well lie that when men look back, two or three hundred years hence, upon this nineteenth century, they will announce its salient characteristic to have been, not scientific, not inventive, but romantic. Science will soon bury our present heaps of facts under larger accumulations, from the summit of which broader theories may he scanned ; to-morrow will man to-day’s wonderful invention old-fashioned and insufficient: but the romance with which this later time has been charged will exercise an increasing fascination over poets and novelists and historians, as the years roll on. Oblivion swallows
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We are honored to have distinguished author and tireless advocate for mystery writers everywhere, Annamaria Alfieri, as our guest blogger today. Her newest cannot-put-down-novel, BLOOD TANGO, launching on June 25th, takes place in Buenos Aires in and imagines the murder of an Evita Peron lookalike. Kirkus Reviews said Annamaria's Invisible Country, "compares with the notable novels of Charles Todd," and The Washington Post raved, "As both history and mystery, City of Silver glitters."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi was born on July 4th, , to Giovanni Domenico Garibaldi and Maria Rosa Nicoletta Raimondo in the County of Nice (Nizza), which was then part of the French empire.
His family were fishermen and coastal traders and part of a large community of Nizzardo Italians living in the Nizza area. Drawn to the sea, he became a sailor and worked for ten years before becoming a Merchant Captain in He served in the navy of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and in he sailed with a shipment of oranges to Taganrog in Russia. He spent ten days in port there during which time he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo, a politically active immigrant and member of the secret 'La Giovine Italia' movement of Giuseppe Mazzini. Later that year, Garibaldi met Mazzini in Geneva and instantly fell under his influence. Garibaldi joined the Carbonari Revolutionary Association and in took part in a failed plot to incite a republican revolution in Piedmont. He escaped across the border