GARIBALDI'S LOVE TRAGEDY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 166, 11 July 1918, Page 8

GARIBALDI'S LOVE TRAGEDY.

i tragic romance in the life of Garibaldi i/rnrttlled by the deathol his Swhllo wife. Marchioness " , ua Kahu.mdi, which took place «» 60th April in her xil'a at Birago. <.g m.. (s-i V « »"«' MJJ"" ot thr- Lund.,!. Daiiy 'Chronicle). The Iterator of Hals first met hex fl , a ■Kuautif.il «nl of 18, when, m .lime 1859, he was encamped with his Alpine troops nt Robarello, near \a-i-ese. Her father, veteran patriot, had tranri'ene.l his residence from Milan • to tho comparative jeciirity of the Italian lake distrut, to rscr.-ie. the vexation of the Austrian secret jiohw, and his delimiter's bold, adventurous spirit led her to place her services at Gairbaldi's disposal for the carrying o? eon (id i ntial despatches, revolutionary literature, and ' lirearms; athwart the-Ai.v-trian lines "iff* a doublo-'bottomed four-in-hand, which she herself used: to drive. Garibaldi fell madly in; love ;With the heroine, and shortly afterwards, while staying at the Marquis's' castle •at Kino, sought and obtained Guiseppina's hand in marriage. The civil ccMinom had been performed. and an arrangement for the bestowal of senator rank upon the father already had been negotiated,' whet), on the re turn from the wedding function, Ga* ribaldi found a yoiinyi cavalry officer named Carpii waiting an interview with him., who revealed the fact that a liaison had for some time existed between himself and the bride. Gavibaidi thereupon paoked his. baggage and a'bandonedi both castle and spouse the same evening. The enraged father confined the girl to hi.s palace at Cumo, wuence she seized the first opportunity of escaping to rejoin her othcer-loyer at Fribonrg. After some months' wandering in Switzerland, Caroli distorted her to iigth for the freedom of Poland, where he. met his death. The marchioness ■ thenceforth consented to return to the paternal hearth, and lead a solitary ■ life on her father's estates. Finally, on January 19, 1880. the aged general had the joy of obtaining the annulment of the hapless union, and. was further enabled to legalise the status ' of his son Manilo and daughter Olelia, i and thus fulfil what he described- as I "the last duty of my life." Soon af- ! terwarda. Oiuseppini (.loscphine) mar ri.fd a hoary- Uuribaldiaii cavalier, L<>dovico Maneiui. .whom she outlived to the ripe age of 80. am»M'^;n«o»*i*jtrm——«—■—■—