Anita Garibaldi

This week I have been mounting my stamps from San Marino. When I came across this nice looking set of stamps and one had a picture of an attractive lady. Upon further examination I learned the lady's name was Anita Garibaldi. I wondered who this lady was and what she did to warrant a stamp. Not that San Marino needs a reason to issue a stamp. I did an internet search and learned a little about Anita. If interested here's the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Garibaldi

To me "The Learning" is the best thing about stamp collecting. Stamp Collecting also helped me learn the location of the countries of the world when I was a kid.

Interesting history..we should have more of these sketches of the people depicted on stamps !!

A very attractive stamp, looks like an oil from a Spanish painter.
Great story, she seems to have been one tough lady.
She appears on another San Marino, (with her husband) 1949 3 Lire

I ran the name on my database, in case you would like to do research
here are the "garibaldi" results.
Just the name, suitability will need research
There is also a red Cinderella getting around with g. Garibaldi on it.

for a minute I thought we were discussing choclate. nice stamps although I must say I miss Garibaldi

I agree about the learning... the history, the geography, the whole world opens for a stamp collector

My love of History and Geography as a kid is what got me interested in collecting stamps.

Dianne

Rod, let me also add Italy scott numbers 280 to 289 honoring Garibaldi.the 75 cent rose red stamps depicts him carrying the dying Anita !! I guess the Italians were right the area down to Verona is definitely Italy..even though my Grandfather and great uncles had to fight 4 years for Austria Hungary because they lived on their side of the line....

Thanks Phil,
you are exposing gaps in my collection :)
I had a further look in and around the Scott numbers
and found a further two issues (SG337-) one with Garibaldi's headstone.
The examples are early poor quality scans and not worth reproducing here.
Ironhelm's story must resonate with you then, having such a close
relationship with the area.

Rod, I have a pretty good collection of Italy,mostly used..i think the finest ones come from the 1930s to 1950's the Fascist era and reconstruction after WW2....

Garibaldi's escape to San Marino

One single postage stamp will be used to commemorate two separate but associated events which together mark the beginning of the end for the revolutionary outbreaks which engulfed Europe in the years 1848-49. The first to be commemorated is the Roman Republic, first constituted in 1798 when the forces of Revolutionary France drove out Pope Pius VI, an event that was reversed the following year by Bourbon troops. The second, better-known, Roman Republic was proclaimed on 9 February 1849 by the Constituent Assembly elected after the flight of another Pope Pius, Pius IX, and which was headed by a triumvirate made up of Armellini, Mazzini and Saffi. This was also overthrown six months later, this time by the French, acting in concert with the Austrians, Spanish and Neapolitans to restore papal sovereignty. Defence was in the hands of Giuseppe Garibaldi who, on the fall of the Republic, forced his way through enemy lines with some thousands of followers and began a perilous journey across Central Italy with the intention of going to the help of Venice, still holding out against the Austrians more than a year after the Republic of St Mark had been proclaimed. Closely pursued by Austrian troops, Garibaldi sought refuge in the Republic of San Marino on 31 July 1849, but was forced to disband his group of followers in so doing. The Sammarinese authorities, and in particular the Captain-Regent Domenico Maria Belzoppi, did everything possible for their unexpected guest, offering him not only food, medical attention and such money and documents as might speed his return home or ease his passage overseas, but even negotiating with the Austrian commanders to gain honourable terms for the conditional surrender of the small 'rebel' army. However, Garibaldi preferred to slip away secretly that same night, with just a few faithful adherents and, of course, his wife Anita, who very shortly afterwards, in the pinewoods around Ravenna, would die of fatigue and the privations of their journey. In their escape down the slope from the Rocca and through the enemy lines by night, their guide was the Postillion of San Marino himself. The Roman Republic is represented by a picture of crowds massed in the piazza before the Quirinale, while the portrait of Garibaldi is based on an engraving by Lorusso. Garibaldi's short stay in San Marino has previously been recorded on stamps in 1924 and 1949

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