1. Anita Garibaldi was the wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.
19 Facts About Anita Garibaldi
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Anita Garibaldi was the third of ten children born to Maria Antonia de Jesus Antunes and Bento Ribeiro da Silva, a tropeiro.
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In 1835, at the young age of fourteen years, Anita was forced to marry Manuel Duarte Aguiar, who abandoned her in order to join the Imperial Army.
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At the Battle of Curitibanos, Garibaldi became separated from the front, losing contact with Anita, who was captured by the rival group.
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Anita Garibaldi asked if she could search among the dead in battle.
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Anita Garibaldi was allowed to search, but did not find him.
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Anita Garibaldi then came upon the river Canoas, into which she waded.
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Anita Garibaldi spent four days wandering without food or drink in the woods, until she found a group of people who offered her food.
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Anita Garibaldi was born with a skull deformity due to a blow that Anita received when she fell from her horse in the flight from the Brazilian camp.
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Anita Garibaldi's name was given in honor of Ciro Menotti.
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In 1841, the couple moved to the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, where Giuseppe Anita Garibaldi worked as a trader and schoolmaster before taking command of the Uruguayan fleet in 1842 and raising an "Italian Legion" for that country's war against Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas.
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In February 1849, Anita Garibaldi joined in the defense of the newly proclaimed Roman Republic against Neapolitan and French intervention aimed at the restoration of the Papal States.
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Anita Garibaldi then fled from French and Austrian troops with the Garibaldian Legion.
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Anita Garibaldi's body had to be hurriedly buried and was later dug up by a dog.
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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.
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Anita Garibaldi is a symbol of Brazilian republicanism and was recognized as a national heroine after the fall of the Brazilian Empire.
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The statue depicts Anita Garibaldi, mounted on a rearing horse, holding her baby son close in her left arm while brandishing a pistol in her right hand, as she leads her husband's army to victory.
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Anita Garibaldi is the subject of the 1952 historical film Red Shirts in which she is played by Anna Magnani.
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Anita Garibaldi was portrayed by Giovanna Antonelli in the 2003 Brazilian TV miniseries A Casa das Sete Mulheres and by Valeria Solarino in the 2012 Italian TV miniseries Anita Garibaldi.