Garibaldi and the Making of Italy

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Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian general and lawman who had a huge part in the establishment of Italy. He is distinguished as among Italy’s “fathers of the fatherland”. Garibaldi was a leading character in the Italian Risorgimento or Resurrection, and headed the renowned Expedition of the Thousand on behalf and with the authority of Victor Emmanuel II. The people under his directive were dressed in uniform red shirts and were called in the famous tales as, “The Red Shirts.”

George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM CBE FRS FBA was an English historian and scholar. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He then spent over twenty years as a writer. He went back to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He became a Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. When he retired, he became the Chancellor of Durham University.

George was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose resolute liberal Whig ideologies he advocated in comprehensible writings of well-read narrative eluding a willfully unflustered scrutiny, that became outdated in his lengthy and fruitful profession.

Some of his works supported the Whig Party, a vital facet of English politics from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, and its descendant, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals presumed the general populace had a more optimistic influence on history than did sovereigns and that democratic government would lead to a balanced social development.

George’s history is secured and biased. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, “reeking with bias”, he commented in his article “Bias in History”, “Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared.”
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