Introduction
Notes Introduction 1. Archivio del Museo Centrale del Risorgimento, Rome, Archivio Garibaldi, busta 684, folder 1. Giacomo Emilio Curàtulo, Garibaldi e le donne (Rome: Imprimerie Polyglotte, 1913), pp. 293–313; Silvia Alberti de Mazzeri, Le donne di Garibaldi (Milan: Editoriale Nuova, 1981), pp. 162–163. The episode is also mentioned briefly in Denis Mack Smith, Garibaldi. Una grande vita in breve (translation of 1956 edition, Milan: Mondadori, 1995), p. 74, and Christopher Hibbert, Garibaldi and his Enemies: The Clash of Arms and Personalities in the Making of Italy (reprint of 1965 edition, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1987), pp. 165–173. 2. Curàtulo, Garibaldi e le donne, p. 301. 3. According to an article by Alessandro Luzio in the Corriere della Sera (Milan) of 12 January 1914, p. 3, Garibaldi is alleged to have claimed in April 1860 before setting off for Sicily that he needed action, “to overcome the two-edged pain in [his] soul—wounded by the cession of Nice and by a shattered dream of love.” 4. Garibaldi married Anita Ribeiro in Uruguay in the 1840s, and she had died while they were escaping from Rome after the revolution of 1848. She therefore entered the pantheon of Risorgimento martyrs. 5. Giuseppe Mazzini, The Duties of Man and Other Essays (London: Everyman, 1955), pp. 61–62. 6. Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), esp. pp. 1–6. 7. On this dilemma, see, for example, Raffaele Romanelli, “Individualismo, famiglia e collettività nel codice civile della borghesia italiana,” in Raffaella Gherardi and Gustavo Gozzi, Saperi della borghesia e storia dei concetti fra Otto e Novecento (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1995), p.
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