Garibaldi: A Great Life in Brief

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Denis Mack Smith
Prentice-Hall, 1969 - Biography & Autobiography - 182 pages
A study of the Italian leader's life from 3 viewpoints; his own with an autobiography, his contemporaries with eyewitness observations, and modern historians with objective appraisals.

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Contents

Introduction
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Chronology of the Life of Garibaldi
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About the author (1969)

David Mack Smith was born in London, England on March 3, 1920. He attended Haileybury College in Hertfordshire and studied history at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He taught at Clifton College in Bristol and served in the war cabinet during World War II. In 1947, he became a fellow at Peterhouse College, where he taught until he was elected a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, in 1962. He retired in 1987. He wrote numerous books about modern Italy including Cavour and Garibaldi 1860: A Study in Political Conflict; Italy: A Modern History; A History of Sicily written with Moses Finley; Mussolini's Roman Empire; Victor Emanuel, Cavour and the Risorgimento; and Italy and Its Monarchy. He wrote several biographies including Garibaldi: A Great Life in Brief, Cavour, Mazzini, and Mussolini: A Biography. He was the editor of The Making of Italy, 1796-1870 and Great Lives Observed: Garibaldi. He died on July 11, 2017 at the age of 97.

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TitleGaribaldi: A Great Life in Brief
Great lives observed
Volume 711 of Spectrum book
EditorDenis Mack Smith
Compiled byDenis Mack Smith
PublisherPrentice-Hall, 1969
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJun 18, 2010
ISBN013346783X, 9780133467833
Length182 pages
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