Garibaldi

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The hero of the wars that led to the unification of Italy was Giuseppe Garibaldi. In every city of substance in Italy, you’ll probably find a statue of him – maybe more than one, or a statue, a plaque, and a bust of him – as well as a street or other landmark named after him; perhaps a school even. In fact, there’s a statue of him in Washington Square in New York. He lived in NY for four years.

Garibaldi was the commander of the troops that started from Piemonte (i.e., Piedmont), sailed to Sicily and began conquering the many duchies, republics, city states and so forth until he had conquered all of them. When he was finished, he had created the nation of Italy and gave it to Vittorio Emanuele II for him to be its monarch.

If it wasn’t for Giuseppe Garibaldi, there would be no Italy – at least not the country as we now know it. Before him, it was just a peninsula and a large region composed of several countries, much like Scandanavia. There were similarities between the languages, but they were separate and distinct languages, not dialects of Italian as people in Italy like to say. A dialect is basically a deviation from a mother language. Instead, some time after the unification of Italy by Garibaldi in the 1860s, the Tuscan language was selected as the official language of Italy. It was afterall the language in which wrote many great literary writers (e.g., Dante, Plutarch, Manzoni).

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As always, I’m pleased to have completed this page. Plus, I think the layout of the album page is pretty good. I could probably improve on the bottom set, though. They don’t have to be in denomination order. I could move the second stamp on the last row to the first position on that row and then center the row under the previous row. That would look more balanced. I may do that one day.

Contains 14 spots: own 14 – 14 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Jan 22, 2024

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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Garibaldi - Air Mail

1.1	✓	A19	Garibaldi	2.25+1₤ (aug 1932) comm., redblue
1.2	✓	A14	Caprera Home	50c (aug 1932) comm., green
1.3	✓	A15	Ravenna Farmhouse	80c (aug 1932) comm., brown red
2.1	✓	A20	Garibaldi	4.50+1.50₤ (aug 1932) comm., greyyellow
2.2	✓	A16	Caprera Home	1+0.25₤ (aug 1932) comm., dark blue
2.3	✓	A17	Anita Garibaldi	2+0.50₤ (aug 1932) comm., red brown
2.4	✓	A18	Giuseppe Garibaldi	5+1₤ (aug 1932) comm., black blue

21st Eucharistic Congress

3.1	✓	30	Rodi: Windmill	5c (sep 1931) comm., lilac pink
3.2	✓	31	Rodi: Mideval Ship	10c (sep 1931) comm., grey brown
3.3	✓	32	Rodi: Knight in Armor	20c (sep 1931) comm., red
3.4	✓	33	Rodi: Knight in Armor	25c (sep 1931) comm., green
4.1	✓	34	Rodi: Knight Kneeling	30c (sep 1931) comm., blue
4.2	✓	35	Rodi: Knight Tomb	50c (sep 1931) comm., dark brown
4.3	✓	36	Rodi: Knight Tomb	1.25₤ (sep 1931) comm., blue

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.

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