Garibaldi's Tragic Romance WHY HE ABANDON-ED HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 9 July 1918, Page 1

Garibaldi's Tragic Romance WHY HE ABANDON-ED HIS BEAUTIFUL BRIDE.

A tragic romance in the life of Garibaldi is recalled by the deatli of his crtswliilo wife, Marchioness Giuseppina Baimondi, which took placc on April 29 in her villa at Birago, Lake ,Como. The Liberator of Italy first met her as a beautiful girl of IS, when in June .ISSU he was encamped with his Alpine troops at Robareilo, near Varese. Her father, a veteran patriot had transferred his residence from Milan to the comparative security of the Italian lake district to escape the vexation of the Austrian secret police, and his daughter's adventurous spirit led her to place her services at Garibaldi's disposal for tliG carrying of confidential dispatches, revolutionary literature, and firearms athwart the Austrian lines in a doublebottomed four-in-hnnd, which she herself used to drive. Garibaldi fell madly in love with the heroine, and shortly afterwards, while staying- at the Marquis' castle at Fino, sought and gained Giuseppina's hand in marriage. ' BRIDE ABANDONED. The civil ceremony had been performed and an arrangement for the bestowal of senator rank upon the father already had been negotiated when, on the return from the wedding function, Garibaldi found a young officer named Caroli waiting an interview with him, who revealed the fact that a liaison j for some time existed between himself and the bride. j Garibaldi thcrupon paclccd his . baggage and abandoned both castle and spouse the same evening. The enraged father confined 'the girl to his palacc at Como, whence she seized the first opportunity of escaping to rejoin her officer-lover at Fribourg.

After some months' wanderings in Switzerland, Caroli deserted her to fight for the freedom of Poland, whore he met his death. The marchioness thenceforth consented to return to the paternal hoartli, and lead a solitary life on her father's estates. Finally, on January 19, ISSO, the aged general had the joy of obtaining the annulment of the hapless union, and was further enabled to legalise the status of his son Manlio and daughter Clelia, and thus fulfil what he described as "the last duty of my life." Soon after, the wife with whom he had never cohabited married a lioary Garibaldian cavalier, Lmdovico Mancini, whom she has outlived to the ripe age of SO.