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"All the stormy passions of humanity, ... are spent as reflections in a mirror, without a trace of the mysterious face of the sea "Joseph Conrad


With the precision and the synthesis of a sailor bound for the attention of the historian, David Gnola us back in a little more hundred pages of the exploits of Garibaldi, the man of the sea, like the headline in the first chapter of his new book, "Logbook of Captain Giuseppe Garibaldi" (Murcia, Milan pp. 208, € 17). That the General is in fact from birth to Nice July 4, 1807 "in a house overlooking the old port," the story of a child who decides to become the hub, then become a pirate captain and, ignoring his other numerous personal stories, and political revolutionary. Became the hub of choice, rebelling against his father, master marine, he would prefer not to see him come on board. The brig Constance was his first bridge, which looked at love with the "lean your tree, the spacious deck and up to your Pettoruto bust of a woman," referring inevitable figurehead. Research carried out by the Gnola huge bibliography dedicated to the hero, the little known State Archives of Palermo and elsewhere, have allowed for the first time to order the events of seamanship Garibaldi, as evidenced by Mino Milani in the afterword. The book page by page, or should I say, mile after mile, carry the reader away from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and then over the Strait of Gibraltar to the ocean boundless horizons, in a continuous succession of stories and adventures, "men ( sailors, captains, ship owners, merchants, adventurers, etc.) and ships (sail, steam, propeller blades, clippers and again so on), taking the words of Melanie. The iconographic
gives us more than the stereotypical image of the heroic deeds of the General, also the least known of the fisherman and always imaginifiche cards Nautical far seas, navigation and combat man-Garibaldi. It was to this personal dimension is the result of an episode of senile age, when in September of 1867 escapes arrest in Caprera, on board a small "snipe" with which to reach a fishing boat that will take him on the Tuscan coast.
The book is complete with the transcript of the logbook of the ship's brig Georgia Carmen etc.., For the most part of Garibaldi's autograph, which besides being a useful tool for investigation of events, returns in its misspelled the "special" color "original."