Garibaldi and the Risorgimento

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🗓️ 1 December 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. According to the historian AJP Taylor, Garibaldi was the only wholly admirable figure in modern history. Born in Nice in 1807, one of Garibaldi's aims in life was the unification of Italy and, in large part thanks to him, Italy was indeed united substantially in 1861 and entirely in 1870. With his distinctive red shirt and poncho, he was a hero of Romantic revolutionaries around the world. His fame was secured when, with a thousand soldiers, he invaded Sicily and toppled the monarchy in the Italian south. The Risorgimento was soon almost complete.

This topic is the one chosen from over 750 different ideas suggested by listeners in October, for our yearly Listener Week.

With

Lucy Riall Professor of Comparative History of Europe at the European University Institute and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London

Eugenio Biagini Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge

and

David Laven Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham

Producer: Simon Tillotson.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this episode of In Our Time. There's a reading list to go with it on our
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0:09.9	I hope you enjoyed the programs. Hello Giuseppe Gariboli according to the historian
0:14.4	Ajipi Taylor was the only wholly admirable figure in modern history. Born in Nice in 1807,
0:20.8	his life's goal was the unification of Italy and in large part thanks to him, Italy was indeed
0:25.6	united substantially in 1860 on and entirely in 1870. With his distinctive red shirt and
0:31.6	poncho, he was a hero of romantic revolutionaries around the world. His fame was secured well
0:36.8	with merely a thousand soldiers he invaded Sicily and toppled the monarchy in the Italian south.
0:42.0	The resolumento was soon almost complete. We're discussing this now as in October we ask you to
0:47.7	suggest to today's topic. This one came from David Row, James Rowles, John Raymond,
0:52.7	Smalier Veris and Vinic Cannon. I thank so to them to all of you for sending in more than 750
0:59.2	good ideas. We would need to discuss Gariboli and the resolumento are Lucerial Professor of
1:04.3	Comparative History of Europe at the European University Institute and Professor of History at
1:08.5	Berkbeck University of London, Eugenia Biaggiini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at
1:13.7	the University of Cambridge and David Levin, Associate Professor of History at the University of
1:19.3	Nottingham. Can you tell the sounding man Gariboli's early life?
1:22.8	Well, as you said, he's born in Nice and his father was a merchant shipment so he spent much
1:30.2	his early life in the Mediterranean sailing around the Mediterranean. You mean sailing around as a
1:34.8	seam? Not sailing around for fun? Yeah, sailing around the seam, and exactly. So by the time he was
1:39.7	a very young man, he knew a great deal of the Mediterranean. And what else? It was also there that
1:46.8	he became politicized. One of his jobs with his father was to carry a group of political exiles
1:54.0	from France to North Africa and he was converted to a form of socialism by then. And it was in the
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