Word: garibaldi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES, by Christopher Hibbert. Author Hibbert has drawn a clear and coherent portrait of the red-shirted romantic who led Italy from confusion to nationhood a century...
...GARIBALDI AND HIS ENEMIES, by Christopher Hibbert. Author Hibbert has clarified the vastly confused and equally grand career of Giuseppe Garibaldi, most romantic and most effective of those who waged the 19th century fight for Italian nationhood...
...GARIBALDI & HIS ENEMIES, by Christopher Hibbert. The vastly confused and equally grand career of Giuseppe Garibaldi, most romantic and most effective of those who waged the 19th century fight for Italian nationhood, is made crisply clear by British Historian Hibbert...
...indicative of the flaming patriotism that consumed the composer's early life and work. He was then 35 and had already written twelve operas, most of them bristling with propaganda. In Nabucco, for example, the "Va, pensiero" chorus was a call to arms that was later sung by Garibaldi's army. Italian opera audiences, quick to recognize the freedom slogans Verdi managed to slip past the Austrian censors, often erupted into flag-waving demonstrations. "Viva Verdi," scrawled on walls up and down the peninsula, became the rallying cry for revolt...
When he retired to the granitic little island domain of Caprera, between Corsica and Sardinia (much of it paid for by English friends), Garibaldi dreamed of a Shelleyan end-to be burned, like the poet, on the beach. When he died in 1882, he was instead given the usual Christian burial on Caprera. Nature supplied the Garibaldian touch. A melodramatic storm came up, and the vast granite block that now covers his body cracked and broke...