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Giuseppe Garibaldi: “There is no pen able to describe, nor imagination strong enough to conceive, the nature of the present Italian movement.”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1860
There is no pen able to describe, nor imagination strong enough to conceive, the nature of the present Italian movement.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi

Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on the profound and unprecedented nature of the ongoing struggle for Italian unification, Garibaldi expresses the difficulty of fully grasping its essence.

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