Word: garibaldi
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Stopping the Funds. As late as 1954, the government was still reimbursing Sicilians for damage done to their ancestors' property during Garibaldi's historic 1860 campaign to unify Italy. Even Garibaldi has been kept waiting. Italy's Parliament in 1910 passed a law to erect his statue in Marsala, Sicily, but the technicalities took so long that inflation has made the original appropriation wildly inadequate. Having missed the 50th anniversary, Parliament decided in 1960 to try for the 100th. It passed a new law appropriating 90 million lire, but the design chosen required 200 million lire...
...done. I only got up to-' And there Uncle Giles stopped counting." There is a deadpan investigation into the real origin of those statues of Confederate foot soldiers that decorate the central squares of all Southern small towns, and why they so much resemble the statues of Garibaldi in all small Italian towns: seems there was this enterprising Italian sculpture salesman with fancy clothes and an engraved calling card...
...GARIBALDI President
Toscanini to Pucci. The Italian presence is ever more inescapable in modern-day Argentina. Statues of Garibaldi, Mazzini, and Columbus populate large urban plazas. Street names run from "Venecia" and "Milán" to "José Verdi" and "Arturo Toscanini." Newsstands are thick with Italian magazines, bars flow with Campari, coffee shops with café alia italiana, and restaurateurs serve up steaming hot pizzas, ravioli and pasta frolla-even if they cannot always spell the names. Argentine men favor Italian-style stovepipe trousers and moccasins; many women are forsaking French styles for designers like Simonetta and Pucci...
While wandering in the secluded garden of his Palermo estate, Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince, finds the corpse of a royalist soldier. It is 1860, Garibaldi and his redshirts have landed in Sicily on their way to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in Naples, and the dead sharpshooter signals the death of a way of life. In his elegiac novel, The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa chronicles this transformation. But The Leopard is more than a retelling of aristocratic decline. It is also a voyage through the consciousness of Don Fabrizio, who struggles to make sense of the paradox presented...