260 pp. - b/w and colour photographs of the time - format cm 15x21 - softbound - printed 2007
Table, in colour, with the map representing the operations of the Italian-Greek legion and of the battle in Drisko
series "Meeting History"
Italian text

ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class A)

THE REDSHIRTS
IN THE BALKAN WAR
CAMPAIGN IN EPIRUS 1912

With the cooperation of Annita Garibaldi Jallet and of the Museum of Villa Garibaldi in Riofreddo (Rome).
Many thanks to the National Committee for Celebrations of the Bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi's birth.

Foreword by Annita Garibaldi Jallet.

Garibaldis and their topicality, conversation with Annita Garibaldi Jallet by Fabio Bonacina.

Introduction by Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi.

On the occasion of the birth bicentenary of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the "hero of the two worlds", a volume written by his son, Ricciotti Garibaldi. New edition of the work published in 1915, in which the author describes the military background and the participation of the Italian volunteers under his command in the first Balkan war in Greece.

It was in the operations towards Ioannina that Ricciotti's "redshirts" took part, and particularly in the battle in Drisko (small town in the area). Subject of the volume the antecedent facts, the battle in Drisko, the following events, the epilogue, that is the adventure of "redshirts" in Epirus in 1912. Moreover, a whole chapter is devoted to the Italian Red Cross, who accompanied and assisted the Redshirts with their precious work, with the help of the Greek Blue Cross too. Constance Garibaldi, Ricciotti's wife, and Inspector of the Red Cross, in a long letter tells about some particularly touching episodes.

The author, who led the campaign, and is therefore also protagonist of the story, writes in the first person a mix between an account and memoirs, quite a technical report accompanied by many documents which testify the happenings told (one of the reasons which led the editor to publish a new edition of the work). There is the romantic myth of Hellenism; the civilian myth of the volunteer "redshirts"; comments on the volunteer troops; the sense of comradeship but also of boldness.

Thanks to this volume, readers can now realize what kind of war it was, the extent of armed forces and fire, but also the "spirit" of that campaign. A picture of an event which remained in Italian memory.

195 pp. - 10 colour plates - 175 b/w ill. - hardbound

MILITARY POST DURING THE ITALIAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE AND THE CRIMEAN CAMPAIGN

The volume illustrates the famous collection of Aldo Pozzolini Gobbi. It is the most complete collection of postal documents and relics related to the wars of Independence, the expedition to Crimea and the war in the East.
These documents are presented respecting the layout chosen by the collector, in order to preserve an historical record of the whole collection.

2 vols. - 271+319 pp. - b/w ill. - softbound - printed 2011
Italian text

ITALIAN RISORGIMENTO
150th ANNIVERSARY ITALIAN UNITY - 2 Volumes:
MEN AND EVENTS - MYTHS AND VALUES
DEAR ITALY - BEAUTIFUL ITALY - Letters from the combatants consecrated to their Country Home

On the occasion of the travelling exhibition organized by Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Città di Asola, Associazione Filatelica Numismatica Scaligera, Circolo Filatelico Numismatico Banino to celebrate 150 years from the Unity of Italy, two volumes tell us about Italian Risorgimento events through essays, writings, correspondence from war combatants.
Hundreds of letters transcribed as they were, a direct picture of the real happenings of those years.

304 pp. - colour and b/w ill. - hardbound - printed 2014
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1866. THE THIRD WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.
ITALIAN MILITARY

The working method adopted by the Authors has much recourse to archive documentation, to newspapers, printed material and posters of that time.

The first part, that is the result of multi-decennial researches in various private and public archives and especially in the Central one of the Italian State in Rome, presents a documentation that may be considered exhaustive of the activity of Italian Military in the year 1866. It also offers the composition of every Office of Military with the names of the various employees and even the compensation collected by them during this military campaign.
The documentation widely resorts to the postal norms in force: this is the reason for the opportune reproduction of laws, decrees, ordinances and newsletters published by various sources, especially about the important and precious "Bullettini postali" of 1866.

The second part, richly illustrated and presented by means of efficacious graphics, is the inventory, divided by office of Military, of the letters found out up to now (only 680 to April 2014). The overall data and then those of every single office have persuaded the Authors not to fix points nor to give evaluations to the various postmarks of Military. A reasonable and motivated choice that, reading numbers, readers will share too.

Every postal document is studied and described in every part: franking, rates and taxations, origins and destinations, disinfections and any other postal mark. Starting from the postmarks of the numerous offices operating in the two distinct phases of the Military System, all reproduced and illustrated in their peculiar use.