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23 - The Hero of Two Worlds

4/28/2014

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Giuseppe Garibaldi is, by a huge margin, the most famous person in the story of the Italian Unification. But, his fame goes beyond that. In many ways, he was the most famous person of the entire 19th century - he was the first international superstar heart-throb romantic hero. Garibaldi was famous on a scale never before seen, as his fame coincided with an explosion in the technology of mass media - the telegraph, lithography, photography, combined with increasing literacy and public interest in foreign affairs. Download Episode 23
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Dario
4/13/2018 04:11:53 pm

Hi - Thank you for your podcast about Italian Risorgimento. If I will have the opportunity, I will use some episodes for my Italian courses.
As Italian I would like to specify some details: 1) minute 4.40, speaking about Nice/Nizza "It was culturally more French than Italian".This statement is hard to prove, and honestly, it is probably false. 2) True that Garibaldi Mazzini and Cavour are born under the rule of the French Empire, but you have also to consider that, at the time, the French Empire included half Europe! 3) Minute 6.00: Ligurian it is considered an independent language, rather than a dialect" It's not so easy to define what is a dialect and what is a language. At the time Italy, as you know, didn't exist, so it is not a surprise that every "Italian" had as first language a dialect. Minute 6.13 "he didn't learn Italian standard dialect" Italian is NOT a dialect. I guess he studied and read books written in Italian so he learnt Italian, not "later in life" as you said. The fact that he had troubles with the spelling and grammar it is because he didn't receive a higher education and probably because he was a polyglot (Ligurian, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese), who lived half of his life in South America and Married a Brazilian woman.

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