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My life / Giuseppe Garibaldi ; translated by Stephen Parkin.
Van Pelt Library DG552.8.G2 A3 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882.
- Revolutionaries--Italy--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Italy.
- Statesmen--Italy--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Generals--Italy--Biography.
- Generals.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 173 pages : maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hesperus Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Italian.
- Summary:
- The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi--distinguished by superhuman courage, personal tragedy, and tireless struggle in the name of freedom--has remained a source of fascination for generations. In this engrossing first-person narrative, Garibaldi charts his extraordinary adventures, from his early seafaring exploits and his flight to South America, to his return to Italy as a conquering general. Now in its first English translation, "My Life reveals all of Garibaldi's strength of character, his visionary outlook, and his unfailing idealism. Adventurer, reformer, military figure, and novelist, Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82) was a hero of the Risorgimento, the movement for Italian unification.
- Contents:
- My Life 1.
- Notes:
- "Hesperus classics."
- "Foreword by Tim Parks"--Cover.
- "Garibaldi's complete memoirs first published in Italian as part of the Edizione nazionale degli scritti di Giuseppe Garibaldi in 1932"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162).
- ISBN:
- 1843910934
- OCLC:
- 56452417
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