Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento

A mid-19th century panorama painted in England, and illustrations from British, French, and German newspapers (c. 1850-1885) regarding Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the military leader of the Italian Risorgimento, and his career. The Garibaldi Panorama and the Risorgimento project provides a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process, reconstructed with the help of newsprint and other textual and visual materials from special collections at Brown University Library.

Garibaldi Panorama: Visualizing the Risorgimento is a project of Italian Studies and the Library (Special Collections).

Contributors to this project include Peter Harrington (Curator), Massimo Riva (Faculty lead)