Abstract
Abstract Garibaldi turned briefly to novel writing after his defeat at Mentana in 1867, whilst he was a virtual prisoner of the Italian government on Caprera. Indeed the disillusionment, bitterness and frustration which he felt at that time find ample, one might say too ample, expression in his novels. In all he wrote three novels, each of which dealt with the experiences of various fictional characters set against the background of three of Garibaldi's attempts to influence the course of Italian history. The first, Clelia: il governo del monaco, which was published in 1870, tells of the persecution of a group of patriots by the Roman government in the period immediately preceding Mentana. It culminates with the description of an unsuccessful attempt to rouse the Roman population to revolt against their clerical rulers in conjunction with the Cairoli brothers and simultaneously with Garibaldi's invasion of the Papal States. Cantoni il volontario, Garibaldi's second novel, which also appeared in 1870, is s...
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