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22 - Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by George Macaulay Trevelyan · Garibaldi and the Making of Italy

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  Speaker 1: Appendic see of Garibaldi and the Making of Italy by
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  Speaker 1: George Macaulay Trevellion. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: The rival organizations that help Garibaldi one The list of
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  Speaker 1: seventeen cities where Bertani's committee had local committees runs as
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  Speaker 1: follows Modena, Parma, Forli, Bologna, Reggio, Ferrara, Piacensa, Florence, Leghorn, Faiensa, Ravena, Rimini, Cuno, Brescia, Bergamo,
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  Speaker 1: Cremona and Milan. I do not think that the list
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  Speaker 1: is complete, but it seems to show that the committee
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  Speaker 1: was active in Lombardy, Tuscany and the Roumagna, and to
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  Speaker 1: a less extent in Piedmont. The Kovarian National Society, whose
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  Speaker 1: seat was in Turin, was most active of all the
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  Speaker 1: cities of Piedmont, but it also had a very active
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  Speaker 1: local committee in the towns of Romagna, not excluding those
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  Speaker 1: in which there were also local committees of Bertani's. In Tuscany,
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  Speaker 1: the committee, initiated in May by Amari and Malincini, worked
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  Speaker 1: hard in conjunction with La Forerina and Medici, quarreling with Bertani. Second,
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  Speaker 1: the accounts of Bertani's committee are given in Bertani Raso.
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  Speaker 1: They were most scrupulously kept and stood the audit, as
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  Speaker 1: Bertani's critics readily admit. The total sum received was six million,
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and one and sixty lera thirteen cent. But
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  Speaker 1: of this sum five six was sent to Brittani by Garibaldi.
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  Speaker 1: Five million, one hundred and six thousand, six hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty five lera forty five cent from Sicily and two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and one thousand, six hundred thirty two lera five
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  Speaker 1: cent from Naples. In this way, Sicily was made to
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  Speaker 1: pay for the liberation of Naples as the price of
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  Speaker 1: its own liberation. For it was the five million million
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  Speaker 1: lira from Sicily that principally paid for Pianciani's great expeditions
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  Speaker 1: in August, equipped by Bertani, Giribaldi had been lucky enough
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  Speaker 1: to capture from the Bourbon government an immense quantity of
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  Speaker 1: treasure in the seca or mint of Palermo. When he
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  Speaker 1: took the town, they had by great good luck, for
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  Speaker 1: Garibaldi been calling in old money to make a recoinage.
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  Speaker 1: A large part of the five million from Sicily came
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  Speaker 1: from this source. The total of the private subscriptions received
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  Speaker 1: by Bertani's committee amounts to eight hundred and fifty one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty five lera twenty eight cent. The
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  Speaker 1: subscription list, including the sums from one fifty upwards, is
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  Speaker 1: given in full in Bertani's wristo. The Kavorian National Society
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  Speaker 1: and the Million Rifles Fund probably drew subscriptions from richer
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  Speaker 1: classes on the average, and were more patronized by the
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  Speaker 1: municipality's voting rates. To help Garibaldi. The National Society received
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  Speaker 1: and spent over one million lira. The Million Rifles Fund,
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  Speaker 1: besides many thousands of rifles and muskets, supplied more than
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  Speaker 1: two million lira. Of these two millions, a large part
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  Speaker 1: was furnished by subscription or out of municipal rates, and
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  Speaker 1: another large part by the Royal government. The Royal Government,
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  Speaker 1: through the agency of the National Society itself, secretly paid
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  Speaker 1: for the arms brought to Garibaldi by Angenta in the
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  Speaker 1: Utulae on its first voyage since the Utulae left Genoa
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  Speaker 1: on May twenty fourth, before the taking of Palermo. We
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  Speaker 1: have here evidence that Kavor financially assisted Garibaldi's expedition before
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  Speaker 1: its initial success was assured. Mister Nilson Gay has proved
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  Speaker 1: this from documents in his possession in his article from
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  Speaker 1: the Deutsche Review December nineteen ten, page three thirteen and
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  Speaker 1: of Appendix se