The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Fourth Part

At the time Garibaldi was born (we are in the first decade of 1800 ) the  italien peninsula was split under a multitude of small independent states.  A strong national sentiment lived  nevertheless  in the Italian's souls.

Some insurrectional and republican movements started in 1820 up to 1831. Garibaldi, like  mostly of his  génération, had built up the  conscience of a  national unity, ground since the split of the   Roman Empire.

For Garibaldi, the Mazzini's thèses to  unify Italy   (Mazzini was, as matter of fact, the other great Joseph of the italian risorgimental épopée),  look like the  directe conséquence of  Barrault's ideas, initial moment of the  rédemption of all reprimed  people.

This last voyage changes Garibaldi's life; in his mémories, he writes:« Christophore Colomb didn't certainly feel pas as satisfactied  déscovering lAmérica as I felt finding someone who was engaged on the  rédemption of our  italic country».

The officiel historiography wants Giuseppe Garibaldi meeting Giuseppe Mazzini in 1833 à Marseille where he jointed The " Giovine Italia" (The Young Italy), the political secrèt  Mazzini 's association whose objectif was to transform Italy into a démocratique unitaire république, without the king of  Tourin, and without the Pope of  Rome, making the  etèrnal town the capital of the new republican state.

In his quality of mariner, Garibaldi must face five year military  service in the royal sardinian  navy; he joined on décembre 1833. Respecting the tradition, he adoptes as nick name Cléombrote, greek  héro from  Sparte.

 Within his friends Edoardo Mutru and Marco Pes, he tries to make some  prosélytist for the cause, risking on the front of the police. As matter of fact the three friends  are foresigned to the police by whom they are surveilled ; Mutru and Garibaldi are moved on the ship Comte de Geneys, the 3rd of  fébruary; the ship is on the edge to   départ with destination Brésil.

In order to understand these  évents, we need to remind that   Mazzini and the Jeune Italie, were controled by the king of Sardinia and by his own governement, because of their républicain ideas.

Nevertheless Garibaldi, for the sake of  the  liberty of his  people, will renounce  the républicain idéals, becoming the king of  Sardinia's friend and of his premier count Camile de Cavour, the others great  autors  of the italien Unification with Mazzini and our héro Garibaldi. 

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The life of the great hero Giuseppe Garibaldi - Third Part

And Giuseppe Garibaldi will become himself an hero: twice hero, as hero of two worlds!

The vashel gets off  the french people in Constantinople,  prosecuting up to  Taganrog. In a Hotel, Garibaldi meets a marin named il Credente (« the Believer ») who exposes to him  the mazzinian  Young's Italy (Giovine Italia) ideas, about républic,   national unity, and  also  Young Europe's ones,  reknowing all  the indépendent status to all people still not free.

Nobody knows the real name of the Believer but what is sure the he will be very important in the  future life of our héro.

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In memory of the great hero Garibaldi

In these last days took place in France, and precisely in Villeneuve-sur-Lot (french town of 24,673 inhabitants located in the department of the Lot and Garonne in the region of Aquitaine, twinned with the Italian city of San Donà di Piave) an important event that  involved the  calaritan lawyer Ignazio Salvatore Basile: the inauguration of a street dedicated to  Giuseppe Garibaldi, the great hero who was born in Nice, the 4th julliet 1807 who fought so long to reunify Italy under the sceptre of the Savoia dinasty.The public joint in a great  number and  was composed of citizens of Villeneuve sur Lot and students from two  high schools who study  italian language and literature between the subjects of their school curriculum. At the conclusion of the Conference Mr Basile has  illustrated the main phases of the films of neorealist director Roberto Rossellini "Viva l'Italia".

At the film vision the calaritan  relator spent a long nice time with the french students and with their teacher on italian subject, Mr Dupont, making them a present of his poetry's books . Professor Dupont, proposed to make a twin exchange between his school and the italian lyceum where the  italian relator teaches law and economics.

The day of Friday instead had as a fulcrum, the inauguration of the road in the presence of the mayor of the town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot, Mr Jerome Cahuzac, neo finance minister of the French government. This second day culminated in dinner of friendship french-italian gladdened by singer   Dorinne who performed traditional music of the Italian repertoire, accompanied by a bandoneon player. 

The italian conferencer left Villeneuve sur Lot in the day of saturday 2nd of june after visiting the beatiful middle age towns of Pujol and Penne sur Agen.

He was positively impressed by the affection and friendship sympathy french people has showed to him.

He loves very much to go around the world where Garibaldi is known in order to narrate the mirabolant and brave gestures of his adventured life.

A man, the great Giuseppe Garibaldi, who advocated the unity of the people, and who's still unable to unite and to cement the friendship between two of the nations of Europe that he loved in particular: Italy and France.

 

 

 

Insomma, il grande Giuseppe Garibaldi, che propugnava l’unità dei popoli, riesce ancora ad unire ed a cementare la grande amicizia tra due nazioni europee che egli amava in particolare: l’Italia e la Fra

The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi- Second part

As matter of fact, Peppino, as the hero is called by his parents, when is fifteen year old,  convinces his father to be allowed to start his career as mariner; when is seventeen, he joins an italian ship, capitained by Angelo Pesante. On his very first journey  he goes to Odessa, enin the Black sea, up to Taganrog, in the  Azov sea, for trading.

In 1825, he discovers Rome where he goes with his father taking the wine for the pilgrim of saint jubelee. In this trip stats his first idea of taking off Rome to the Pontifical State to made of the eternal town the Capital of the reunifing Italy.

In 1827 he sets down in Costantinople obliged to rest there by a sickness up to the end of 1831.

 He teaches in these three years both italian and frend and even Maths, on which is very skill also because he has longly study it for shipping reasons.

In 1832, he reaches the driving commandin lycense as shipping capitain.

In  march 1833 he  leaves again for Constantinople.

 The clorinde embarks  13 french passangers who show to be adepts of Henri de Saint-Simon. They are led by Émile Barrault, who exposes the  « saint-simoniennes » ideas to  Garibaldi.

A phrase hits  particulary the young capitain Garibaldi:

    « A cosmopolitain man, who adoptes all the humanity as his own country  offering his spade and his blood to the people fighting  against the  tyranny he's not just a soldier, he's  quite a héro »

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The life of Giuseppe Garibaldi - Chapter One - First Part

Giuseppe Garibaldi was born in Nice (France) the 4th julliet 1807. His borning town, Nice, actually, before been conquered by the napeolenian trrops, was part oof the the kingdom of Sardinia, the small italic state led by the Savoia dinasty, which  constitutes the original nucleus of the actual Italian State. It will defitely become french in 1860, in force of the Plombiere Treat between Nappoleon III and Camillo Cavour, who sacrified the Garibaldi's borntown in the altar of the italian unity, never forgiven by the great hero of the two worlds. His parents were both Italians, from Chiavari, a little marin town in the ligurian gulf. His father, Domenico Garibaldi,  was a ship owner and wanted for his second born, Giuseppe, a future career as a lawyer or as a doctor; his mother, fervid chistian believer, would have wanted for his beloved Peppino (that's the way our hero was called by his relatives) a future as a priest. But the destiny of Giuseppe Garibaldi was quite different from these parents's desires, as we will see in the next parts.
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The imperfect science

One day Ronald Reagan, annoyed by the vague answers that gave him his economic advisers,  vented his anger by saying that he wanted to have economic advisers with only one hand.

In fact, in economics, as in drug therapy, there is no cure that does not have contraindications.

If you take a pill for the headaches, there is a serious risk to end up with an upset stomach, and perhaps with a good antibiotic, together with the viruses you might destroy your intestinal flora and your vitamin stores.

Even in economics, if you increase the amount of money in circulation, you'll give  impetus to inflation, and if increases in wages, prices will go up, and so on.

The reality is that we are in crisis because we have the illusion that our economic growth can go up indefinitely.

And we are not available to regress and to change our consumer habits.

Yet we must resign ourselves, sooner or later, to change our economic model of development (and senseless consums that are the corollary) if you do not want the planet earth sink under the weight of our abuse.

And maybe he's right the great philosopher Edgar Morin when he writes that our model of democratic representation needs to be changed, reviving it with a more direct involvement of local communities on the one hand, and globalization of a central government on the other hand.

10 Reasons Parents Don’t Believe Their Child Is Sick

It’s a never-ending battle and a narrow tightrope to walk, dealing with kids who tell you they’re sick. On the one hand, as a caring parent you always want to look out for the welfare of your children and to help them when they’re feeling less than 100%. On the other hand, however, you just don’t know when to believe them sometimes. They can be quite crafty at getting what they want. Take, for instance, these 10 reasons why parents don’t believe their child is sick:

1. The oral thermometer reads 114°. You go into the bathroom for 2 minutes while your son takes his temperature. For a mere 2 minutes he’s left alone with the thermometer. You come back and, what the … Say, what’s that smoke coming from the table lamp light bulb, Junior?
2. It’s Monday morning. What is it about 7 AM Monday mornings that make them so susceptible to all manner of germs and viruses anyway? The Monday morning blahs are not something that needs to be diagnosed by the family physician, in case you were wondering.
3. They’ve faked it umpteen times before, in which case you can hardly be faulted for your skepticism toward the situation. Tell your son the fable of the boy who cried wolf – while he’s dressing himself for school.
4. The sudden ailment coincides perfectly with final exams or an assignment that is due, which your child has failed to study for or complete on time. It’s amazing the things you can learn just by taking a child’s temperature.
5. They’ve got an appointment with the dentist scheduled for today. Another remarkable coincidence that your child could fall ill the same day she is due to have dental work done.
6. You’ve seen your son will his way through the bubonic plague all the way up to Prestige Mode, in Call of Duty. Surely a measly flu bug isn’t going to send our little Commander to sick bay. Perish the thought. Damn the torpedoes and all that.
7. It happens every spring. Those nice warm days filled with brisk air and sunshine just seems to make the kids so ill. At least on five out of seven days of the week, none of which start with the letter “S”. Oddly enough, they seem to build up an immunity right around Friday afternoon at 3.
8. They went nearly three full months (June, July, and August) germ-free and in tip-top shape as the immaculate picture of health. Now they seem to be sick every week. Something tells us it’s got nothing to do with allergies or their immune systems.
9. When we were kids, we never got sick. We walked 5 miles to school, uphill both ways, in our bare feet. And when we got home, we churned butter on our bicycles while painting the barn …
10. Your daughter swears she’s sick, pointing out her gaunt and pale appearance – which you could have sworn she just spent an hour and a half cultivating in the upstairs bathroom, while coordinating her Hot Topic emo ensemble.

P.S. This post was created and proposed to me by  Tinzley Margolin. I'm therefore publishing it by her invitation and under her permission. See also the link below fore more information:

http://www.nannyflower.com/blog/10-reasons-parents-dont-believe-their-child-is-sick/