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Giuseppe Garibaldi is the Italian hero par excellence. His name is, in America and in the whole world, a symbol of freedom from the power, of popular revolt, of national unification. Giuseppe Garibaldi is one of the most loved and famous Italian historical characters. This is because all his life is, itself, a great adventure to tell and to hear.

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Tuesday, October 17 | 7:00pm-9:00pm | Department of Romance Languages - Boston College | Lyons Hall | Room 316 | 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill Lo spirito liberale e nazionale che aleggia in Italia nell'Ottocento, ed i principi già affermati per l'umanità dalla Rivoluzione Francese, anche di derivazione illuministica, come l'eguaglianza, li...

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Giuseppe Garibaldi is best known for leading military campaigns that helped unify Italy, but the famed freedom fighter came very close to taking another notable assignment. And his brush with the Union blue remains one of the most curious tales of the Civil War. An Italian adventurer and revolutionary might seem like an unlikely candidate for a Civ...

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By Tony Ricevuto Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian patriot and military leader who helped free the Italians from foreign rule and unify the country. He began his military campaign to free the mainland and Sicily from foreign rule in 1848. Almost single handily, he hearkened volunteers and built an army to descend on the South.  ...

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Conference on digital projects directed by Prof. Massimo Riva (Brown University), about the Decameron Web (Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio), the Project Pico (a few masterpieces by Giovanni Pico – Mirandola) and the Panorama Garibaldi May 3, 2013New BrunswickRutgers University conference starting at 4.30 pm

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For year 2013 to every $ raised in bricks we will receive an extra $ as a matching grant! Your contribution this year will be double the value, every $ brick purchased in 2013 will bring to the museum 2x$. For over 50 years the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum has fulfilled its mission to preserve the legacies of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Antonio Meucci, and...

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Saturday, November 22, 2014"I have struggled with my most ambitious art project in my life. I have come to the final touches on my portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Antonio Meucci. I believe that this painting may be a turning point in my life. It is ready after many months of toil.Your presence is requested at the unveiling of the ONLY known...

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Friday, September 19, 2014 at 7:00pmIn this lecture, Professor Louis Leonini will take us back in time to examine how Italy was actually unified. He will examine the role of the three major players in the unification, namely Giuseppe Mazzini, Count Camillo di Cavour, and Giuseppe Garibaldi.   The lecture will seek to discover if, as many pop...

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La storia delle migrazioni italiane è un capitolo storiografico centrale e vastissimo, dato l'intreccio di esistenze, di vite, e la massiccia movimentazione di italiani che a partire dall'Ottocento migrarono verso l'Europa e le Americhe.Una migrazione di braccia, braccia da lavoro, ma che portava con sè tutto quel bagaglio culturale di tradizioni e...

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Le rivoluzioni e le guerre del 1848 provocano il movimento di migliaia di esuli e profughi: per l'Italia e l'Europa, è la prima volta nella Storia. Per qualcuno, però, occorre addirittura mettere un Oceano tra sé e, magari, una condanna già passata in giudicato. Spesso, in questi casi, la meta sono gli Stati dell'America Meridionale, nati da poco –...

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