Word: garibaldi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...isle of Caprera (which Guiseppi Garibaldi bought in 1854 with the money he had earned as a chandler at New York) died Francesca Garibaldi, third wife of Italy's great hero. She was 75 years old?the same age at which her famous husband died...
Francesca, a Piedmontese, went to Caprera in 1867 (aged 19) as a nurse to Garibaldi's grandchildren. He married her after the annulment of his union with the Contessa Raimondi, who aided him during his 1859 campaign...
Benito Mussolini's action in Italy recalls in many ways the initiative of Garibaldi in 1860; and in Mossolini's organization, the Fascisti, seems destined to have effects comparable to the Young Italy founded in 1831 by Mazzini...
Threats of mobilization on the part of the Fascisti have now forced the Facta cabinet to resign. A stronger power than the government has taken over the government, and what will happed next is a mystery. Mussolini is less radical for his time than was Garibaldi, and the great changes of 1860 are not to be expected. A new cabinet may be formed under Giolitti, or if the rumors of the extremists of the Right are confirmed a republic will be set up in place of the kingdom...