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Giuseppe Garibaldi: “One of the greatest sorrows of my life is, that I am not able to brighten the last days of my good parent, whose path I…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1860
One of the greatest sorrows of my life is, that I am not able to brighten the last days of my good parent, whose path I have strewed with so many sorrows by my adventurous career.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi

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Garibaldi reflects on the personal cost of his adventurous life, expressing sorrow for the difficulties it brought his mother.

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