page_title: Anita Garibaldi
section_title: Death on campaign in Italy
hierarchical_section_title: Anita Garibaldi / Death on campaign in Italy
caption_attribution_description: English: Publication/Creation: Nottingham: 1860 Creators and Contributors: Story, J. J. (creator) Description: Physical Description: 1 scene; 147.2 x 279.9 cm. reformatted digital Abstract: Anita dies in a farm house not far from Ravenna surrounded by Garibaldi, some of his comrades, and those who have granted her asylum as the Austrians seek them out. Call Number: DG552.8.G2 S86x 1860 (Annex Hay Call No.) General notes: Scene isolated from a multi scene panorama
context_page_description: Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva, best known as Anita Garibaldi, was the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their partnership epitomized the spirit of the 19th century's Age of Romanticism and revolutionary liberalism.
context_section_description: Anita accompanied Garibaldi and his red-shirted legionnaires back to Italy to join in the revolutions of 1848, where he fought against the forces of the Austrian Empire. In February 1849, Garibaldi joined in the defense of the newly proclaimed Roman Republic against Neapolitan and French intervention aimed at restoration of the Papal State.  Anita joined her husband in the defense of Rome, which fell to a French siege on June 30.  She then fled from French and Austrian troops with the Garibaldian Legion. Pregnant and sick from malaria, she died on August 4, 1849 at 7:45 pm in the arms of her husband at Guiccioli Farm in Mandriole, near Ravenna, Italy, during the tragic retreat. Her body had to be hurriedly buried and was later dug up by a dog.
  Anita remained a presence in Garibaldi's heart for the rest of his life.  It was perhaps with her memory in mind that, while traveling in Peru in the early 1850s, he sought out the exiled and destitute Manuela Sáenz, the fabled companion of Simón Bolívar. Years later, in 1860, when Garibaldi rode out to Teano to hail Victor Emanuel II as king of a united Italy, he wore Anita's striped scarf over his gray South American poncho.
caption: Anita dies in a farm house not far from Ravenna surrounded by Garibaldi, some of his comrades, and those who have granted her asylum as the Austrians seek them out.
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