If you have been to Italy, you know it: there are some street names you’re bound to find everywhere, from the largest of cities to the tiniest village. Just like you find a Market Square or Shop Street everywhere in England, the Belpaese is the place of Garibaldi Squares and Vittorio Emanuele II Avenues …

Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification

Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882) is one of Italy’s “Fathers of the Fatherland” and, as many of you know, he had a central role in the unification of the country, in the historical period we know as Risorgimento. As a military general and national hero, he led the Expedition of the Thousand, the Spedizione dei Mille, in 1860, which resulted in the conquest of Southern Italy and the consequent proclamation of the King