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Garibaldi
Author(s)

Pierre Milza
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9782213672991, 9782213655307
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Fayard
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Originaire d’une famille de modestes marins et lui-même marin, Garibaldi a choisi tout jeune de consacrer sa vie à la cause de la liberté. En Amérique latine d’abord où il a combattu pendant près de quinze ans au service des démocrates du Rio Grande do Sul et de l’Uruguay, puis en Italie où ce guérillero désintéressé a achevé de bâtir sa légende. Personnage aux multiples visages, immortalisé par la chemise rouge qui fait de lui une cible vivante et que portent également ses compagnons d’armes, Garibaldi restera jusqu’à sa mort, et longtemps après encore le « héros des Deux-Mondes », l’homme qui le plus a œuvré pour l’émancipation et pour l’unité de l’Italie, avant de militer pour la paix entre les peuples et pour plus de justice sociale. Fidèle à ses engagements et désireux d’acquitter la « dette » qu’il dit avoir contracté envers la France, à demi-infirme et souffrant de douloureux rhumatismes articulaires, il débarque à Marseille avec quelques centaines de « chemises rouges » pour apporter « ce qu’il reste de lui » au gouvernement de la République et remporter, à Dijon, l’un des rares combats victorieux livrée aux Prussiens par l’armée de la Défense nationale. C’est ce personnage de légende, sans doute celui dont la notoriété dépasse celle de tous les « grands hommes » du XIXe siècle, dont Pierre Milza retrace dans ce livre le destin héroïque.

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Garibaldi
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Lucy Riall
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9780300176513, 9780300112122, 9780300144239
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Yale University Press
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Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success.
For thirty years Garibaldi was involved in every combative event in Italy. His greatest moment came in 1860, when he defended a revolution in Sicily and provoked the collapse of the Bourbon monarchy, the overthrow of papal power in central Italy, and the creation of the Italian nation state. It made him a global icon, representing strength, bravery, manliness, saintliness, and a spirit of adventure. Handsome, flamboyant, and sexually attractive, he was worshiped in life and became a cult figure after his death in 1882.
Lucy Riall shows that the emerging cult of Garibaldi was initially conceived by revolutionaries intent on overthrowing the status quo, that it was also the result of a collaborative effort involving writers, artists, actors, and publishers, and that it became genuinely and enduringly popular among a broad public. The book demonstrates that Garibaldi played an integral part in fashioning and promoting himself as a new kind of “charismatic” political hero. It analyzes the way the Garibaldi myth has been harnessed both to legitimize and to challenge national political structures. And it identifies elements of Garibaldi’s political style appropriated by political leaders around the world, including Mussolini and Che Guevara.

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