Giuseppe Garibaldi: life of the week

Hello and welcome to Life of the Week, where leading historians delve into the lives of some of history's most intriguing and significant figures, from ancient Egyptian pharaohs and medieval warriors to daring 20th century spies. He led one of history's most celebrated guerrilla campaigns. showed remarkable political acumen, and drove aristocratic Englishwomen wild. Is there any wonder that Giuseppe Garibaldi is one of the towering figures of Europe's nineteenth century? Here, in conversation with Spencer Mizen, David Larvin relays the thrills and spills of the great romantic hero,

of the campaign for Italian unification. So David, I wonder if you could start by giving our listeners a quick introduction to Garibaldi. Who was he in a nutshell? Okay, Garibaldi is probably the most famous Italian of the 19th century, which is interesting because he was born in Nice under French rule, which was an Italian city, which subsequently returned to French rule later in his life, much to his annoyance actually. So the most famous of all 19th century Italians was born in a city which is now French, and he's basically famous for a series of events from the late 1840s through to the 1860s, in which he is one of the key drivers of Italian unification.

Italy in the 19th century had been divided into many little states for a very long while, briefly semi-united under Napoleonic rule in the early 19th century, but basically it's a divided peninsula. And he is one of the great Italian patriots who threw a series of mostly military expeditions, but he shouldn't be underrated as a political figure to helps bind that together, is known as a guerrilla leader, develops as a guerrilla leader actually in Latin America, in exile, in the 1830s and 1840s, and he's the great hero of Italian unification. And he's incredibly well known across the world. In Britain in the 19th century he's absolutely fated.

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