Ricciotti Garibaldi

Who was Ricciotti Garibaldi?

Ricciotti Garibaldi was an Italian soldier, the fourth son of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Garibaldi.

Born in Montevideo, he was named in honour of Nicola Ricciotti executed during the failed expedition of the Bandiera Brothers against the Kingdom of Naples. He spent much of his youth in Nice, Caprera and England. Ricciotti fought alongside the Briganti to free the south of Italy from the Piemontesi where the cruel Savoia regime cause an uprising of the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. So Ricciotti find himself fighting the very people that his father Giuseppe supported. This fact has been covered by the state hystoricist of the past and of the present as it may cause embarrassment and could well uncovered unwanted true on the conduct of the King of Italy and his army in the South of Italy.

In 1866, alongside his father, he took part in the Battle of Bezzecca and the Battle of Mentana; in 1870, during his father's expedition in support to France during the Franco-Prussian War, he fought in the Vosges, where he occupied Châtillon and, at Pouilly, captured the sole Prussian flag lost during the war.

After a failed attempt to create market enterprises in American and Australia, he was deputy in the Italian Parliament from 1887 to 1890. In the Turkish-Greek war in 1897 and 1912 he fought with the Greek Army against the Ottomans with other Garibaldines.