Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to be one of Italy'
Garibaldi in 1866
The house in which Garibaldi was born
Garibaldi and his men carrying boats from Lagoa dos Patos to Tramandahy lake during the war in Rio Grande do Sul
Garibaldi during the battle of Sant'Antonio, 1846
Anita Garibaldi
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Anita Garibaldi was a Brazilian naturalized Italian republican revolutionary, who was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their partnership epitomized the spirit
Giuseppe Garibaldi
…Republic in its attempt to separate from Brazil, joining the rebels known as the Ragamuffins in the Ragamuffin War of 1835. During this war, he met Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva, commonly known as Anita. When the rebels proclaimed the Catarinense Republic in the Brazilian province of Santa Catarina in 1839, she joined him aboard…
Contemporary portrait of Anita by Gaetano Gallino, 1845
Anita and Giuseppe Garibaldi, memorialized in Praça Garibaldi, Azenha, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Anita's house in Laguna, Santa Catarina
One of the only two known portraits of Anita Garibaldi, painted in Rome in 1849 by Gerolamo Induno.