The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-06-05
GARRIBALDrs CHILDREN.
Tho singular Matrimonial Relations
/ OF the Italian Liberator. .--.

The difficulties that may bcset the child
ren of Garribaldi in the settlement of his
estate after his death are being discussed
by the Italian journals, which, with their
usual fOndness for hyperbole, describe the
heroic old General as a father whose child.
rem are not his own, and husband with
out u wife. Garibaldi has six children.
They are the offspring of three women,
with only two of whom he has lived vet.
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 woman of
Brazilian birth called Annita. She was
married, but falling in love with the ad-
venturer, she left her husband, and, after
accompanying Garibaldi through his
most perilous experiences in South Amer
ica, she followed him 70 Europe. She
was the mother of Garibaldi's eldest three
children, Menotti, Ricciotti and Mime.
Canzio. She died in the forest of Raven
IA when Garibaldi was fleeing from
troops in 1S49. Ten years later, at the
time of his campaign in LOmbardy, Carl
baldi met the youthful daughter of the
Marquis BasmOndi. This damsel loved
unwisely one of Garibaldi's aids-de-camp,
a young officer named Confirm. When
the Italian troops moved away from Co
mo, her fathers home, she determined to
follow her lover. She went after him ON
horseback, and her father went after her.
When the Marquis found her she told
him she had conceived for Garibaldl a
passion she could not govern. Garibaldl
was informed of this declaration, and as
he was pleased with the girl, he married
her. The marriage ceremony was little
more than over when the young woman
informed her husband that she loved his
aid-de-camp,. Confrimi, that there was a
good reason why he shsuld be her hus
band, aud that she had lied to her father
when she told him she loved Garibaldi
because she was afraid to tell him she
loved Confrimi, to whom, she felt certain
he would never let her be married. Carl
baldi solved the difficulty thus raised by
leaving his young wife at once, He j.
said by some never to have seen he
again. Others assert that, several year.
later, she called on him and implored hin
to take her as his wife in fact. A few
months after her marriage to him sh,
gave birth to child, now living, o
whom Signor Confrimi was the rea
father. When the veteran revolution
first returned TO Caprera, after the struggle
of Aspromoute, his daughter, Nine. CanziO
accompanied him. As she was on tn,
eve of accouchment, she took with her
nurse named Francesca. This woman
cared tendcrly for Garibaldi in his sick
ness. One morning he summoned hi
daughter and said to her: "You must ge
another nurse for your infant. From thi
day forward Francesca will be one of tn,
family. and will eat with u.s." A yer,
short time later Francesca became moth
er. She has since had two children. On
of her children is dead. The others
Menlio and Clelia, are now in Rome will
Garibaldi and Francesca. These two be
in ,illcgitimate, and the offspring of An
nita being illegitimate, the Italian jcul
mails contemplate with interest the fac
that Garibaldi's only lawful child is tn
with whom the never cohabi.ed. 80