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Anita Garibaldi A Biography
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Anthony Valerio
Foreword by Philip V. Cannistraro
Book Code: C6937
ISBN: 0-275-96937-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96937-0
248 pages, maps, photos
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2000
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...Valerio's biography salutes the legend that Anita Garibaldi has elsewhere and may be too someday become.
    —South Eastern Latin Americanist     Winter/Spring 2002
  • Endorsement From Janet R. Jacobson
    Director
    Center for Research on Women
    Barnard College:     Anthony Valerio's genre-crossing biography provides unique insight into Anita Garibaldi's `short, glorious life.' Valerio writes with a novelists dedication to character and an historian's dedication to the past. An unusaul book for a revolutionary woman.
  • Endorsement From Afaa M. Weaver
    Simmons College
    Boston:     In Valerio's hand, Anita Garibaldi emerges as the courageous but vulnerable woman from Sao Paulo, Brazil, whose singular and precious spirit was caught in the times. Anita Garibaldi is a romance discovered in history's embrace. Valerio creates the Brazilian ethos in its emerald presence as the brilliant nerve in Garibaldi's brave but short time. This biography has a texture like a Renoir film, broad and expansive, swimming along in voluble seas.
Description: Illiterate and poor, the daughter of a herdsman in 19th century Brazil, Anita Ribeiro was lifted from a life of obscurity to one that is the stuff of romance and adventure. When she and a young Italian exile by the name of Captain Garibaldi met in 1839, they joined in the cause of founding a Brazilian republic. Later they went on to lead the defense of Montevideo from an Argentine siege--just one episode among many in their idealistic, nationalistic crusade in a time of immense revolutionary upheaval. It was Anita who taught Garibaldi the guerrilla ways of the gauchos, and they lived as man and wife through a series of adventure and wars. Returning to Italy in 1848 to fight for a united republican Italy, as revolution swept throughout Europe, Anita and Garibaldi were tragically separated by her untimely death the following year. Garibaldi went on to ultimate fame as the father of modern Italy--while Anita's story drifted into the mists of legend. This book, the first full biography of the remarkable life of Anita Garibaldi, tells the true story of a fascinating and important woman.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Brazil (1821-1841)
  • A Childhood
  • A Girl without a Father
  • The Gift of Land
  • Revolution in Exchange
  • Night Moves
  • Occupation amid Cheers
  • Saudade, or the Sadness of Parting
  • From Tempest to Calm
  • Courtship Under Fire
  • The Agony of Happiness
  • Combat at Sea
  • Defend and Retreat
  • Garibaldi's Treasure
  • Shadows of Memory
  • Guerrilla Chief
  • Menotti, Child of Victory
  • Disastrous Retreat
  • Uruguay (1841-1848)
  • Montevideo, Big City
  • An Honest Woman
  • Battles with Brown
  • Under Siege
  • The Red Shirt
  • Jealousy
  • The Virtue of Darkness
  • A World of Gracious Things
  • The Glory of Salto
  • Fame
  • Passage to Italy
  • Italy (1848-1849)
  • A Woman of Leisure
  • Speranza, or Hope
  • The Lago Maggiore Campaign
  • Mr. & Mrs. Risso
  • Reunion in Rieti
  • Rome
  • House of the Four Winds
  • End of a Dream
  • The Retreat (July-August 1849)
  • The Hunted
  • Decline
  • San Marino
  • Cesenatico
  • Anita's Death
  • Epilogue
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-042755
LCC Class: DG552
Dewey Class: 945
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