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Alberto Mario

Mario Alberto was born in Lendinara (Rovigo) in 1825. He took part to the first war of independence and coup attempts in Genoa.
In 1857, he went first to England and then the United States. He returns to Italy for the War of Independence, but there comes when the armistice have already signed. Married Jessie White and Garibaldi’s friend and advisor, participated in the expedition of the Thousand. To the Companies of Garibaldi he devotes two of his writings: The Red Shirt (1870) and Popular Life of Garibaldi (1872). He died in 1883.