Word: garibaldis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from a deal made by Napoleon III and King Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia in 1859, when Napoleon promised to help liberate northern Italy from Austria in return for Nice and Savoy. The war aroused such enthusiasm throughout Italy that Napoleon ducked out of it, taking his prize, while Garibaldi and his Red Shirts conquered Sicily and Naples for Vittorio Emanuele...
Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino, escaped from Borgia's treachery with San Marinese help. Garibaldi saw an Austrian Army that was pursuing him halt at the Republic's frontiers. When the Fascist tide started rising in Italy, so many refugees were washed up on the mountain side that Italy threatened to take over San Marino. Instead, the Fascists tried for years to control its politics. Not until 1932 was there a pro-Fascist majority in the 60-man Grand Council. Not until Federico Gozi (whose family has run San Marino for years) and Salvatore Foschi were elected twin regents...
...head of a clan of tyrant-hating Red Shirts, peppery Peppino Garibaldi naturally did not think much of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirt". IN 1924 he called the Roman Legions of the Fascist militia "a gang in the pay of the Government" and the Legions' commander, General Varini, challenged him to a duel. Peppino refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved...
Last week General Garibaldi, now 60, was back in Italy again to see his aging mother. In smooth Italian fashion he made public a letter to Benito Mussolini. Since he had "had the opportunity of seeing the profound transformation of the political and economic life of the nation under Your Excellency's leadership, "wrote he, "I wish to assure you from this moment of my disciplined obedience and sure faith...
...Garibaldi red shirts were first worn when Grandpa Garibaldi's independence fighters in Uruguay uniformed themselves in a supply of slaughterhouse workers' blouses...