The Hero's Way: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna by Tim Parks is an interesting read, especially if you are a fan of Garibaldi, the Risorgimento, and the failed republican uprisings of 1848. Really, you just need to be interested, even mildly, in one.
The most fascinating thing I discovered in this book is that many Italians, especially those on the margins of this or that, dislike Garibaldi, and believe the unification of Italy was not only a disaster, but a conspiracy between Piedmont, Garibaldi, and Jewish bankers. Perhaps throw in the Masons too.
Italian unification worked well for some regions, and very poorly in others. But a conspiracy did not bring this about; in the end, it had more to do with north/south animosities and the government(s) that existed in different regions before unification. Jews or Jewish cabals had no hand in this.
Sadly, our world is slipping toward these manic and lunatic explanations for why bad things happen.
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