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    Companions Through Time

    Jun 01, 2021 4 minutes
    Review by N. S. Thompson

    THE HERO’S WAY: Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna

    BY TIM PARKS

    Norton, 352 pp., $27.95

    IN JULY 1849, the world was watching as the freedom fighter from Montevideo assembled his troops for a tactical retreat. Writing for the New-York Tribune, American journalist Margaret Fuller was among the crowds in Rome’s Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano to report on the event, which also featured in British and French newspapers, while American ships were sighted off the Tuscan coast, ready to take the freedom fighters to the United States.

    Born in 1807 in Nice, then part of the Kingdom of Piedmont, Giuseppe

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