Garibaldi and the Making of Italy: June-November 1860 (Garibaldi Trilogy Book 3) ($3.99 to Free)

Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan.

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Book Description:

Guiseppe Garabaldi, hero of the Italian Risorgimento, is one of history’s greatest, most charismatic leaders.

This is the final volume of British historian GM Trevelyan’s epic trilogy, covering his life and career. The first two books covered Garibaldi’s rise as a national figure in the Italian states, and how he navigated the web of European powers who sought to retain control of their territories. This final instalment shows Garibaldi at last achieving his dream of a united Italy, by way of compromise with the powerful republican Count Cavour.

George Macaulay Trevelyan was the most famous historian of his day, credited with inventing a form of history authorship that was accessible to the common reader. He clarifies the mosaic of political, social and cultural influence which made up pre-Risorgimento Italy, and draws a clear picture of the personalities and strategies of the major players involved – the Italian politicians Guiseppe Mazzini and Count Cavour, Italian King Victor Emmanuel II and Napoleon III of France. Trevelyan was a great champion of the Italian Risorgimento and gives his native England much credit as the only European power to back the cause. Such is the verve and eloquence of his prose that all readers are sure to be convinced. The book concludes with an account of the hero Garibaldi’s death in 1882, aged nearly seventy-five, and an analysis of his exceptional personality and achievements.

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