General Giuseppe (“Peppino”) Garibaldi of Manhattan and Connecticut is the grandson and namesake ofItaly’s late great Liberator and no mean soldier in his own right. In 1897, aged 17, he climbed out ...
The Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882) was memorialized with a bronze statue in Washington Square Park in New York City in 1888. With statues a subject of recent controversy, ...
“Henceforth, not only the prosperity of the Italians is in danger but their very freedom,” fumed Bestselling Author (and Deputy) Luigi Barzini in the weekly L’Europeo last week. He was denouncing not ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — American artist Annamarie Trombetta will play host to a reception at the Garibaldi Meucci Museum on Saturday, July 20, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in celebration of her solo exhibit, ...
Admirers of the British writer Tim Parks might find his latest nonfiction book, “The Hero’s Way” (Norton, 384 pages, $27.95) a surprise. For 40-odd years he has written about his adopted country, ...
THE death of Count Cavour in 1861 was an injury to Garibaldi, though he little suspected it; and henceforth, while we remember that Garibaldi’s devotion to the national cause was never slackened, we ...
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After extensive research, discovering artifacts and uncovering items stored in the basement of the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, the 1849 Gothic Revival cottage that once served as ...