The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-06-19

The Singular Matrimonial Relations Of the
Italian Libcruf0r.


The Singular Matrimonial Relations Of the
Italian Liberuior.
The difficulties that may beset the
children OF Glribaldi in the settlement
Of his estate after bis death are being
discussedby the italian journals, which,
with their usual iondness for hyperbole,
describe the heroic old general as a
father whose children are not his Own,
and a husband Withoutawife. Garibaldi
has six children. They are tho offspring
of three women, with only two Of whom
be has lived, yot, strangely, it was only
to The woman with whom he never CO.
habited that he was married. At the
time Of his contest against the Dictator
Rosas, in La Plata, he met q woman Of
Brazilian birth, called Annita. She was
married, but, falling in love with the
adventurer, she left her husband, and
after accompanying Garibaldi through
his most perilous experiences in South
America, she followed him to Europe.
She was the mother Of Glribaldi's eldest
three children, Menotti, Ricciotti and
Mmc. Canzio. She died in the forest of
Rayenna when Garibaldi was fleeing
from Rome, after the arrival there Of
the French troops, in 1910. Ten years
later, at the time OF his campaign in
Lombardy, Garibaldi met the youthful
daughter Of the Marquis Basmondi.
This damsel loved unwisely one Of Carl
baldi's sides-de-oamp, a young officer
named Confirm. When the italian
troops moved away from Como, her
fathers home, she determined to follow
her lover. She went after him on horse.
back, and her father went after her.
When the marquis found her she told
him che had conceived for Garibaldi a
passion she could not govern. Garibaldi
was informed of this declaration, and,
as he wa pleased with the girl, he mar
ried her. The marriage ceremony was
little more than over when the young
woman informed her husband that she
loved his aide.de-camp, Confirm, that
there was q good reason why he should
be her husband, and that she had lied
to her father when she told him she
loved Garibaldi, because she was afraid
to tell him she loved Confrnii, to whom,
she felt certain, he would never let her
be married. Glribaldi solved the diff
Guilty thus raised by leaving his young
wife at once. He is said by some never
to have seen her again. Others assert
that several years later she called on him
and implored him to take her as his
wife in fact. A few months after her
marriage to him she gave birth to a
child, now living, of whom Signor Con.
frini was the real father. When the
veteran revolutionist retired to Caprera,
after the struggle of Aspromonte,
his daughter, Nine. Clnzio, accom-
panied him. AS she was N the eve OF
accouchment, she took with her a nurae
named Francesca. This woman cared
tenderly for Garibaldi in his sickness.
One morning he summoned his daugh-
ter and said to her: You must get an
other nurse for your infant. From this
day forward Francesca will be one of the
family, and will eat with u.s. A very
short time later francesca became o
mother. She has since had two chill
dren. One of her children ia dead. The
others-Menlio and Clelia-aro now ip
Rome with Garibaldi and francesca.
These two being illegitimate, and the
offspring of Aunita being illegitimate,
the italian journals contemplate with in
terest the fact that Garibaldi's only law.
full child is the offspring Of the daugh.
ter of the Marquis Basmondi, with
whom he never cohabited,