The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-06-21
Carribaldi'S Conoubines.

While in South America the General
| took up with a woman Damed Anita, W he
loved him devotedly, and died in his
arms, in a COIN field, while the Austrians
were chasing them Several Of the party
were caught and shot on the spot. Don
ma Francesca. as his second wife is call
+ ed, Is quite as much OF character IN
I her way AS Garibaldi himself She is a
great, coarse, tat-faced woman with
nothing Of the Italian type in her ap-
pearance. She looks very like a rough
E0glish housemaid. Her name was
francesca Armosino; she was common
cohtadlna, or peasant woman, that There
sta Canzio (Garibaldi' daughter) en9a
gcd as a servant and child's nurse once,
when she went to visit her father at Cap
| rer2. GarbXldi fell ill during the visit ;
this servant woman was the nurse. When
he recovered and came TO the family
table for the first time he placed this per
son at the head of his table, saying to
his daughter: ''Teresita, you mus hunt
another woman. Francesca belongs to
me now; in few months she will De the
mother of my child. Francesca bore
GariDaidi two children son and
daughter A few years later, whea aari
ohiVi SOI liS lCSdl from the
Marchesa Raimondi of Como, be .'madc
an honest woman" as Pamela novels
OF the last century Use to say-of Fran
cesca, AMI went through some sort OF
ceremony that stood in the place cf the
sacrament CT marriage; bat as there is no
divorce law in Italy, and as neither Carl
baldi nor his Francesca believed IN reI-
glous sacraments, it renamed an open
question as to what name may be appE-
ed TO their contract.
Donna Francesca bullled the whole
family. When they We're living IL Rome,
in the villa outside of Porta Pi;., the
daughters and sons of Anita ,"ished
Garlbaldl to go to see some perscn that
for some reason or other was dIsag.eable
to Francesca. Every time the visit vas
proposed, Francesca grew sully SAID ;,
MOI One day wheD they all eating,
the visit was again proposed; Garibaidi
said slylv, Yes, yes, let US go2" Then
Donna Francisco rose ia her wrath. She
took her plate, which was full of boar
and broccoli, and smashed it violently on
the floor; then seized the table-co
and whirled all the dishes off the table
She brandished her knife abolt rs she
Informed them that the visit should not
be paid, and, moreover should never bc
mention again; she dashed her knife
against the wall, where the point stuck
Then she seized Carl Ia ldl couch and
wheeled him out of the room, he all the
while chuckli ling over her display of TEN
per. 1t is needless to say that the un-
pleasant subject was never broached
again. She is a capital MUSE, and was
very kind and devoted 10 GaIiDaldi. She
is as strong as a horse, would lift the old
man IN her arms, rub him patiently, dress
and undress h!m, and never gave him a
cross word. She put him to sleep as il
he were baby, and then locked him up
IN his bed-roOm if she was Obliged to 20
away, SO that he might not be disturbed.
When they were living at Frascati
few years ago, deputation came all the
way from Vlterbo To visit the General
of the Mile, or Thousand' When the
committee arrived, the members were
told that 1t was impossible to see Carl
balds, as he was asleep; Donna Frances,
ca bad locked him in the bed room, and
gone off 10 Rome on business with the
key III her pocket. But we must sec
him, the committee. members cried.
I'VE have come ali the way from Vlter-
boz The reply was impossible, un-
less you can wait until Donna Francesca
returns. They could not wait, and
had to go back to Viterbo without an
interview with the general.