Statues - Hither & Thither
Italy
Pisa
Pisa (prov.)
Toscana

Piazza Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Nice 1807 - Caprera 1882
Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy; considered, with Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II, and Mazzini, as one of Italy's 'fathers of the fatherland'
(Wikipedia) 		Ettore Ferrari
Fonderia Crescenzi (Roma)
1892

Pisa / Giuseppe Garibaldi   Pisa / Giuseppe Garibaldi

Description

Statue of Garibaldi. Around the pedestal is a bronze relief.

Pisa - Giuseppe Garibaldi
Front: an eagle with a laurel wreath and at the corners two winged female figures, vmanità (Humanity) and patria (Fatherland)

Pisa - Giuseppe Garibaldi
Right: o roma o morte (Garibaldi's battle cry, transl. 'Rome or death': scene with soldiers leaving their home.

Pisa - Giuseppe Garibaldi
Back: aspromonte: Garibaldi wounded between his soldiers.
Garibaldi, landing in Aspromonte with 3,000 volunteers in his march towards Rome, was defeated and captured on August 29, 1862 in the Battle of Aspromonte.

Pisa - Giuseppe Garibaldi
Left: pisa: Garibaldi, wounded in his leg and foot, arriving in Pisa on a stretcher (1862).

Inscription(s)

PISA
A
GARIBALDI
MDCCCXCII

Signature

e. ferrari a.r. mmd cxliv
Fond. Grescenzi Roma.

Sculptor

Tags

  • Country: Italy
  • Crescenzi (Roma), Fonderia
  • Fatherland
  • Ferrari, Ettore
  • Garibaldi, Giuseppe
  • Humanity
  • Politician
  • Soldier
  • Statue

    • Location N 43°42'59" E 10°24'7"

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