Vittorio Alfieri

Tragedy and prose poet, born in 1749 at Asti from noble family, studied at the Military Academy of Torino where he became standard bearer of Asti regiment in 1766. He well travelled over Europe and in 1772 settled in Torino where an unreciprocated love incited him to write his first tragedy "Cleopatra", finished in 1773 and perfomed in June at Car ...

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Hero of the Italian Risorgimento, he was born in Nice in 1807, the son of Domenico Garibaldi, sea captain, and Rosa Raimondi from Loano. At age 15, he followed in his father's footsteps, sailing as a cabin-boy and becoming a captain in 1832. During his sea voyages, he met G.Mazzini in 1833 at Marseilles and entered, Giovine Italia, a secret socie ...