Giuseppe Garibaldi: Corsaro Riograndense (1837-1838) by Salvatore CandidoReview by: Donald A. LimoliThe American Historical Review, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Jan., 1966), p. 620Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1846461 .

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sive and judiciously critical bibliographical essays: on Florentine institutional his- tory, on Machiavelli, and on Renaissance historiography. Like its subjects, this book has a large vision, but one resting on solid and careful scholarship. It utilizes interesting new nlaterial from the Florentine archives and manuscript collections. In the much-plowed fields of Machiavelli and Guicciardini studies it is hazardous to speak of any one work as being definitive. Gilbert's, however, comes comfort- ably close. To my taste, he perhaps overemphasizes the idealism and moralism of humanist political thought and historiography before the crisis. Quattrocento hu- manists were moving toward realism and a conception of the autonomy of their disciplines. The early sixteenth-century crisis, acting as a catalyst, brought these trends to maturity. But in the end Gilbert affirms the presence of a new human- ist vocation in both men and disciplines. Sarah Lawrence College CHARLEs TRINKAUS

GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI: CORSARO RIOGRANDENSE (i837-i838). By Salvatore Candido. Preface by Alberto M. Ghisalberti. [Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, Biblioteca Scientifica. Series 2, Memorie. Volume XX.] (Rome: the Istituto. I964. PP. xi, 246.)

GARIBALDI'S first South American venture was his buccaneering voyage (begun May 7, I837, with the ship Mazzini) for the republic of Rio Grande do Sud, in re- volt against Brazil. In the first and better part of this book the author seeks to ex- plain why Garibaldi was hostilely received in Uruguay, when his patent from Rio Grande do Sud assured him he would find haven and support in the countries of the Rio de la Plata. The future redshirt, who always generously and unselfishly offered his services, became the victim of a tortuous factional fight between Uru- guay's first constitutional President, Fructuosa Rivera, and his successor, Manuel Oribe. When Garibaldi received his patent in November I836, Oribe was consort- ing with the Rio Grande rebels, and Rivera was intriguing to secure the aid of Brazil to overthrow him. But by the time the corsair put in at Maldonado, Uru- guay, the course of the struggle had been such that Rivera had gone over to the rebels and Oribe had closed in with Brazil.

In the rest of the book the author examines the various episodes of the expedi- tion, such as the issuance of the patent, the voyage to and flight from Maldonado, the ensuing encounter at sea in which Garibaldi was seriously wounded, and his detention at Gualeguay, in the Rosas province of Entre Rios. The author has used many unpublished documents in Uruguayan and Argentine archives, many of these appearing in the appendix. Unfortunately, except for perhaps a point or two, nothing important or interesting results from this, for he concerns himself with a good number of trivial matters. In addition to the degree of detail, this part of the book contains many unnecessary quotations that make for tedium in a tale of what was, as the author agrees, a most romantic undertaking.

University of California, Santa Barbara DONALD A. LIMOLI

STORIA DEL PARLAMENTO ITALIANO. Directed by NViccol& Rodolico. Volume XVII, L'INCHIESTA JACINI. Edited by Domenico Novacco. (Pa- lermo: S. F. Flaccovio, Editore. I963. PP. XV, 443.)

THE making of a united Italy in the middle of the nineteenth century suffered

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