Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger
Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi , (born July 29, 1879 in Melbourne , Australia , † May 19, 1950 in Rome ) was the grandson of Giuseppe Garibaldi , the famous pioneer for an Italian nation-state in the 19th century. Like his grandfather, he lived the life of a military adventurer and participated in a number of wars and armed conflicts in Europe, Africa, Central and South America.
Life
Giuseppe, known as "Peppino", was the son of Ricciotti Garibaldi , Giuseppe Garibaldi's second son, born in 1847 from his marriage to Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro . As early as 1897 he took part in the Turkish-Greek War , where his father commanded Italian volunteers who fought on the side of the Greeks. After taking part in the Boer War in South Africa on the British side, he went to South America. Here he spent the following years in various countries, for example in Venezuela , where he made himself available to those who fought between 1901 and 1903 the dictatorial ruling President Cipriano Castro .
After the start of the Mexican Revolution , he joined Francisco Madero's fight against the dictatorship of long-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz . Madero, who held him in high regard, entrusted Garibaldi with a high command post. Although he was ranked after Pancho Villa and other greats of the revolution, Garibaldi was never as popular as a foreigner in Mexico. Contributing to this was not only his lack of military skills, but also his vain and conceited nature. The latter also brought him into conflict with Pancho Villa, whom Garibaldi called a coward and whose contribution to the victory over the Díaz troops in the battle for Ciudad Juárez in May 1911 he completely negated. Garibaldi seems to have soon lost his interest in the revolution in Mexico anyway, because in 1912 he was back in Europe, where he - again on the Greek side - took part in the First Balkan War . During the First World War he fought with the Legione Garibaldina , a volunteer unit he set up, initially for France. After Italy entered the war in 1915, however, he changed the theater of war in order to be able to take part in the fight of his home country against Austria-Hungary . For this he was appointed Brigadier General in 1918 .
Since Garibaldi was not a friend of the fascists who had taken power in Italy in 1922, he finally emigrated to the United States, where he had been before the First World War. There he married, lived in Manhattan , among other things, worked for radio and wrote his memoirs. Plagued by homesickness, he finally made his peace with the fascists and returned to Italy, where he died in Rome in 1950 .
Trivia
The Plaza Garibaldi ("Garibaldi Square") in Mexico City , which is known for its numerous restaurants and bars as well as the Mariachi groups that can often be seen here , was named after Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger.
Works
- A toast to rebellion. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., 1937.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Garibaldi’s conversion . In: Time Magazine, April 15, 1940 .
- ^ Friedrich Katz: The life and times of Pancho Villa. Stanford, Calif .: Stanford Univ. Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8047-3046-6 , pp. 93 and 299 . In the following cited. as Katz, Pancho Villa .
- ^ Katz, Pancho Villa , p. 96 .
- ↑ Details on this and on Villa's alleged plan to murder Garibaldi because of it can be found in Katz, Pancho Villa , pp.118f .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Garibaldi, Giuseppe the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garibaldi, Peppino |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Giuseppe Garibaldi's grandson and adventurer who took part in numerous wars |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1950 |
| Place of death | Rome |