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HISTORY BOOK



Ricciotti Garibaldi
LA CAMICIA ROSSA
NELLA GUERRA BALCANICA
CAMPAGNA IN EPIRO 1912

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

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ISBN: 978-88-85335-91-2
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.

CONTENTS

* Foreword, Annita Garibaldi Jallet
* Table, in colour, with the map representing the operations of the Italian-Greek legion and of the battle in Drisko
* Garibaldis and their topicality, conversation with Annita Garibaldi Jallet, Fabio Bonacina
* Introduction, Bruno Crevato-Selvaggi

* Dedication, Ricciotti Garibaldi
* I - Greece and Italy
* II - Greece
* III - Preparations in Italy
* IV - From Rome to Athens
* V - Some incidents
* VI - From Athens to Metzovo
* VII - Romas Column
* VIII - Battle in Drisko
* IX - The field hospital
* X - From Drisko to Athens
* XI - Accountancy
* XII - Documents
* XIII - Notes of promotions
* XIV - Note of volunteers
* XV - Summary note of jobs
* XVI - Alphabetical note
Ricciotti was born in Montevideo in 1847, fourth born of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro.
From 1866 he distinguishes himself on the battlefields. When his father dies, in 1882, he wants to collect his moral heritage, the values of military voluntary service and of philhellenism which belonged to Garibaldian tradition. It is Greece which gives him the possibility to revive the tradition of Garibaldi's "Redshirts", already from 1897. The General Ricciotti succeeds in realising his true inclination: at the head of new Garibaldian volunteers, he creates a new military tradition, which intervenes in favour of peoples' freedom, and pays attention to the values of heroism and sacrifice in the name of a nation.
He dies in Riofreddo (Rome) in 1924.

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