America in Italy; Italy in America
What two centuries of 'cultural borrowing' got right, and what going wrong
A nearly forgotten chapter in the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi was written during the Italian founding father’s three-year exile in the United States in the 1850s.
Garibaldi occupies a unique place in Italy’s history: a swashbuckling general and a folk hero whose thousand red-shirted volunteers helped stitch nearly a dozen kingdoms and duchies into a sing…
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