“Brothers of Italy,
Italy has woken,
Bound Scipio’s helmet
Upon her head.
Where is Victory?”
Italy National Anthem
So we carried on into the familiar sounding Corso Garibaldi and came across the inevitable statue of the hero of Italian unification. After the creation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 the state worked hard at making sure Garibaldi would be remembered and the number of streets, piazzas and statues named after him makes him probably the most commemorated secular figure in history.
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The inventor of ‘dead fly biscuits’ as we knew them as kids
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or ‘squashed fly’, ‘flies grave yard’ etc. This always put me off the Garibaldi biscuit – even today!
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