Garibaldi (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Syme
- First Published: 1966
- Time of Work: 1807–1882
- Setting: Italy, South and North America, France, and England
- Principal Characters: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Anita Riberas, Menotti Garibaldi, Riciotti, Victor Emmanuel, Camillo Benso Cavour, General Oudinot, Louis Napoleon, Francis II
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Nationalism, Italy or Italians, Biography
- Locales: France, England, Italy, South America, North America
Form and Content
In Garibaldi: The Man Who Made a Nation, Sir Ronald Syme has written a clear, but perhaps sometimes rather too cursory, biography of the nineteenth century Italian revolutionary fighter who provided inspiration and muscle for the struggle to unify the different parts of Italy and to weld them into a modern nation-state. In his narrative, Syme follows the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi from his birth in the Mediterranean port city of Nice in 1807 to his death on his small island of Caprera, just off the coast of Sardinia, in 1882. What falls in between these...
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