Stewing Waters
Tim Parks: Garibaldi, 21 July 2005
Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi
by Daniel Pick.
Cape, 288 pp., £16.99, July 2005,0 224 07179 3 Show More
by Daniel Pick.
Cape, 288 pp., £16.99, July 2005,
“... even worse when ‘decisions about the Tiber were once more frozen’. Little wonder then that Emile Zola wrote ‘a sustained post mortem on the eternal city’. And so on. The irony is that if there was a man in 19th-century Italy who had set his spirit against received ideas and the thrall in which they held the minds of ordinary people, it was ... ”