Military and politician. He was part of Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy movement (La Giovine Italia). In the 1830s and 1840s, he participated in several revolutions and wars of independence in Latin American countries. He returned to Italy in 1848 and took part in numerous battles for the independence of Italian territories occupied by Austria and France. 

Garibaldi became the great hero of the Italian wars of independence and Italian unification. Once he achieved the unity of Italy in 1870, he became a Member of Parliament, but resigned because the Republican ideas for which he had fought did not materialize. He retired to the island of Caprera, where he died. 

The so-called Hymn of Garibaldi (Inno di Garibaldi), composed by Luigi Mercantini and Alessio Olivieri, was one of the emblematic hymns sung and performed by Spanish federal republicans in the 1860s and 1870s.