Mazzini returned the Italian Peninsula where he joined the nationalistic forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi for a time. Early in 1849 he was elected as a member of what proved to be a short-lived government in Tuscany following the departure of the Grand Duke and as one of the leaders of the ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot and soldier of the Risorgimento, a republican who, through his conquest of Sicily and Naples with his guerrilla Redshirts, contributed to the achievement of Italian unification under the royal house of Savoy. Learn mor
“party of action,” whichsponsoredGiuseppe Garibaldi’sexpedition to Sicily in 1860. Yet this expedition has been called “Mazzini’s gift to the ‘party of action,’” for it followed plans devised by him in earlier years. Mazzini went to Naples during Garibaldi’s brief dictatorship of ...