#via garibaldi

[therighthandofvengeance]

Garibaldi: why should I apologize in words when I can just apologize with pizza?

#babylon 5 #b5 #michael garibaldi #incorrect babylon 5 quote #source: @therighthandofvengeance #as in I literally said this #and i stand by it #every pizza apology has been accepted #for the record I do believe that conflicts should be worked through via words #I just also think that an apology is easier to accept when there's pizza

[all-mirrors]

going through all stages of grief at the airport, sicily ily so much but i could never live here

#my paid holiday aka internship is over!!!! bye!!!!!!! i will miss my beloved via garibaldi <3 #all of the bad days i’ve had here (and i’ve had maaaany of them) are suddenly forgotten lol #eee

[tigerfush]

view from Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy. September 2022

#via Giuseppe Garibaldi #lake como #bellagio #italy #holidays #my photography

[sinapsimagazine]

Alto impatto a Forcella, piazza Calenda, via dei Tribunali e piazza Garibaldi

Ieri i poliziotti dell’Ufficio Prevenzione Generale e del Commissariato Vicaria Mercato, personale della Polizia Locale, con il supporto dei Nibbio, dell’Unità Cinofila Antidroga dell’Ufficio Prevenzione Generale e delle pattuglie del Reparto Prevenzione Crimine Campania, hanno effettuato controlli nella zona di Forcella, a piazza Calenda, in via dei Tribunali ed in piazza Garibaldi. Nel corso…

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#Alto impatto #controlli #FORCELLA #piazza Calenda #piazza Garibaldi #via dei Tribunali

[scavengedluxury]

Junction of Via Cesare Carmignano and Traversa III Garibaldi, Naples, 1970. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive. 

#naples #napoli #italy #street photography #1970s

[yogadaily]

(via Eva Messa | Spazio Garibaldi  || Curated with love by yogadaily) 

#natarajasana #yoga #yogi #yogini #yoga inspiration #asana #asanas #yoga pose #yoga poses #yoga posture #manifesting #yoga aesthetic #yogadaily #fitness #health and fitness #motivation #motivational #motivate #inspiration #inspire #inspirational

[kyliafanfiction]

Babylon 5: Born to the purple (finally having time to do this on the day)

*The whole 'G'kar is a horndog' thing gets kind of ignored after Season 1, which does make sense (it sort of comes back in Season 5, for one scene), but it was a thing earlier on, including in this line where G'kar agrees with 'all things in live females are the greatest'

*K'odath's disbelief that G'kar would be there raises questions about Narn society and G'kar's repuation back home *God, this episode hits harder in Hindsight *I love how Arcy B5 got later on, but I also like the opening to Season 1, because it lent itself to the more episodic feel of Season 1

*Oh yeah, this is the episode with Ivanova using Gold Channel

*Vir's use of the weird Gameboy like thing is hilarious. We never see that again, probably because he learns to do it back in his quarters. *B5 throws words like 'Sector' and 'Quadrant' around without much of a real sense of place and size. No clarity as to where these places are. *This episode tells us so much about Centauri society, and really drives home where Londo sits at this point. *MOON FACED ASSASSIN OF JOY *I don't think I've ever noticed the narn playing Vir's game before when I've watched this episode. *G'kar being so thrown by Londo's Mood *THIS ASSHOLE. And plot thickens. *God, it's so heartwarming though, how much he cares about her. This is not just some 'I want a pretty woman' thing. He really does love her *Londo's password is so very him at this point in his life. *I just wish Talia had been taken to dinner by Ivanova here. *cries in shipper* *Ivanova being protective of her console feels so in-character you forget... *"Figment of your demented imagination" *I do feel like Mollari's cipher should have requried a specific tone too, but I guess a voiceprint is pretty secure *Don't Give Away The Homeworld :rofl: *"get your feet moist" I love it when Londo and Vir get earth sayings wrong *Just a casual use of a tazer in public *I get that slavery is legal in Centauri space, but how is it legal on B5?

*damn that is a fancy bug. *Trakkis, when a man says "get out" in that tone, you GET OUT

*Vir walks in with such a swagger *Negotiating via subordinates is hardly unheard of G'kar. *"Don't give away the homeworld" *You know, I get it's conservation of Characters, but these Ambassadors really do need bigger diplomatic staff. And more competent ones. Ones you can actually trust to do the job *Then I hurt Him *"My good and dear friend" ah, Londo of this season. Such a decent guy, in a lot of ways. :rofl: *Londo's failure to talk the guy around is hilarious. But sinclair's deceptions *And here it is. The other key backstory element for Ivanova **cries* fuck. *Sinclair's strategem is so risky, I'm surprised there were no downsides. *"Coming from you Ambassador, that's a real compliment" *And the thing is, Talia has a point. The Psicorps rules about these things are there for a good reason. But this is one of those things where you'd think warrants could exist. But apparently there just is no room for that? *Not that they could get a warrant in this context but *I do love the 'don't think of an elephant' trick she pulls on him *G'kar saved Londo's career, and he's gotta hide that fact so much. :rofl: *I do wonder what exactly is in those Purple Files *I love that Garibaldi knows not to press her about it. Just "it won't happen again" *God, Londo... the ending.

#B5 Rewatch #Babylon 5 Rewatch #1x03 Born to the Purple

[an-s-sedai]

Edit: I will not re-post this to the correct blog, this just lives here as a monument to my glee!

B5 s02e19 Divided Loyalties Table of Contents • previous episode

Delenn: "I find the notion of the press a…fascinating, but sometimes troubling concept."

I find the notion that the Minbari don't have press to be a fascinating but potentially troubling concept!

The machine that dispenses Universe Today but requires that you confirm your identity to get a paper is wild. Does it give different papers to different people?

Delenn: "It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. And, uh, I often learn things about my own world before I'm told what I need to know and no more."

She is so cute!! And so crafty!! I liked Delenn from The Gathering, but I like her more and more whenever she appears.

A flood on a space station seems like it could get really really bad, really really fast.

I once read a hilarious fanfic where some Star Wars characters traveled to B5 and bought a shitload of data crystals, which turned out to be kyber, and this reminded me of that.

When I was looking up what the episode was called, I saw that Lyta-from-the-Gathering would be coming back and I'm so excited for this! I hope she and Talia get along.

asddkhfsdkfh what was that little shimmy?? Cool alien, hilarious shoulder wiggles.

Sheridan: "oh, I miss trees…." Garibaldi, from Mars: "……" *yeah, so anyway changing the subject now*

Talia: It's hard to believe it's taken us so long to get to this point. Two years. Susan: Well, you didn't exactly make it easy. Talia: Me? how 'bout you? Susan: I'll have you know I've been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all you had to do was admit that you were wrong and I was right and everything would be fine!

LMAO.

Sleepover? Sleepover!!! GAY GIRLS GO

Susan: "I'd like the company."

Yeah I'd like her company, too. *eyebrow waggle*

Wow, Lyta had a rough arrival! Maybe she can sleep over with Susan and Talia, too. *eyebrow waggle*

Go Lyta Go. I support unhinged women wielding surgical tools.

Poor Lyta has spent years being distrusted and interrogated by psicorps for what she saw in Kosh's mind. I'd be pretty twitchy after that, too! Their tender loving care seems like it would be the exact oppposite.

She is even hotter than she was in the Gathering.

OK, love the exposition about the fucked up things psi corps can do with people's brains. Fucking terrifying. Implant a personality below their personality, that emerges and destroys the original when the right time comes around. Moles that don't know they're moles. Very uncool of PsiCorps.

Lyta is SO paranoid, but I suspect she isn't being paranoid enough. She's shockingly tolerant of being placed in secure holding. I don't think I'd agree to be literally imprisoned that readily. She hasn't done anything but come out of anesthesia swinging surgical tools after being imprisoned by PsiCorps for two years.

Delenn!!!

Sheridan: Why is it every time you finally get things calmed down and everything's going great life decides to kick you in the butt? Delenn: …but what?

That really got me and I lol'ed. Good use of idioms and miscommunication! Love it. She wasn't taught slang because it was considered innapropriate for a member of the religious caste.

Delenn: I butt, you butt, he or she butts… Sheridan: NO. No, it's… Delenn: Butt-butt. Sheridan: you sound like a motorboat. Delenn: Motor butt?

I continue to cackle. OK, I finally ship them. They reeled me in!

Hold her hand back you fucking monkey!!

The debates and counter-intelligence and fact checking is A+. Damn you JMS for making me like Garibaldi via the excellent Garibaldi-Sheridan interactions. :|

Sleepover date!! I am so excited. Susan knows how to woo a woman: with a real, hot-water shower. It would work on me.

More good exposition. Talia knew Lyta, she was six months behind Talia at the academy. She was nice, sweet. They were close at one time. *eyebrow waggle*

It speaks very well of Lyta that she hated her PsiCop internship and went commercial instead.

"So I've come to the decision that there's only one person on this station that I can trust implicitly…" *gets in Susan's personal space and stares at her lips* "…you." *almost touches Susan with bare fingers* me: *goes absolutely fucking feral*

Why tf is Lyta a prisoner?! I ask a-fucking-gain. This is ridiculous, and exposes her and her mission to the goddamn EarthCorps brown shirts!

Yeah, well obviously someone wanted to shoot at her when she was being transferred! This is why she should be having a gay-ass sleepover with Talia and Susan right now!

At least they don't think Lyta instigated the attack on herself. They're ass-backwards about this. She shows up with news of a secret, they imprison her where any security staff could find out, including the goddamn leak she was talking about, and then Sheridan is mad and shocked someone knew she was there with critical info. C'mon, dude.

Also Susan, <3, Sheridan is right about one thing, this isn't a scan to object to, it's just her projecting a code word to see if anyone reacts.

Talia: "I woke up last night and you were gone." Me: [beast shaking toy in mouth.jpeg]

O.o WHAT IS SUSAN LYING ABOUT. Is she telepathic???? It's my long-running headcanon about her! Please be telepathic, please be. If we get to find out that her mom used her telepathy to hide Susan's powers that would be EVERYTHING to me.

If only Na'Toth and Laurel were in this episode also being badasses it would be the greatest of all time.

c'mon telepathic Susan! C'mon!! omfg I'm almost vibrating.

"…and then, every once in awhile, I was the one who touched her mind."

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP FUCK YES I AM WELL FED THIS EPISODE

"…I'm a latent telepath."

FUCKING WINNING

Now Sheridan just needs to not be an idiot about this. Obviously she hid it, who wants to be fucking gangpressed into PsiCorps?!

Good job, Sheridan. Minimal shittiness achieved. And I know I'm completely fucking feral about Susan/Talia but it's so perfect that Susan is so close to Sheridan that he's the first person she tells about her hidden talent.

Smart of Garibaldi to hand over his piece before being not-scanned. What a fucker tho, faking them out. hahah.

also please don't be the mole, Ivanova. I don't want anything bad to have happened to her, ever, but since plenty has, I don't want any more!!

After all these people have been cleared, I think Ivanova will probably just agree to being cleared. She will want to know. Maybe she would let Lyta tell Talia the password and let Talia password her?

I do like Sheridan's theory earlier talking to Garibaldi that the second in command who shot Garibaldi in the back was the mole.

Ahhhh Ivanova did change her mind. And she's clean!

Lyta: I'm sorry Susan: Go to hell.

That's my girl.

Oh man!! I didn't even think to suspect Talia! Fuuuuuuuck, and she's all telekinetic'ed up, too!! Oh, damn it. I don't like this at all.

or do I? There's plenty of whump to be had. hm.

You know what I really don't like, this boys-only confab. Ivanova is the second in command of the entirety of B5 and she's not present for the strategy meeting. Uncool.

Ahhhh it's all coming together for Garibaldi. Wow, they really have been seeding this plotline for the whole show!! Cool Hat Man Mind Empty No Thoughts Only Hat wasn't just fun filler!

The Talia that Susan knew definitely has to be in there! They haven't kissed yet! And I need that!!

Oh, this is chilling!! The angst! The whump!! Susan!!!

I think it would be really funny if the sub-personality didn't understand homosexuality and therefore has no idea real!Talia was in love with Susan and vice versa.

OK now I weirdly ship Lyta/Kosh.

"I never told them, I never told anyone. I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind. They could have killed me and they still wouldn't have found it. Only at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept the memory of you and listened to your voice. Listened to you sing me to sleep. I hope I can come back again, but I don't know. Until then, Kosh, I want to see you again. Just one more time before I go."

Lyta's a bonafide monsterfucker. What a great note to end this on!

My thoughts right now are: "Hnnnnnngggggshshshcsagfjkaldsf yes." Good episode! My favorite of the season so far! I can't wait to see how all this plays out!! I may make some gifs and do a gif-post of this ep later. So many good shots!

this next one is posted to the correct blog, hah.

#babylon 5 #lyta alexander #susan ivanova #talia winters #susan ivanova x talia winters #screaming crying throwing up #an episode of all time #plot plot plot plot #woodsfae b5

[pwlanier]

Ippolito Caffi, Venice,

Nocturnal Festivities on the Via Eugenia (today Via Garibaldi)

Oil on canvas

Dorotheum

[eileen-crys]

It's official!!! On Saturday 9th September I'll host the opening of a small exhibition with my Queen fanarts 💖 I'll also be there with prints, stickers, etc! Later there'll be a Jam Session with live music all about Queen 🥰💕 Ruggero's food is AMAZING too so you can have an aperitif or dinner there!

Locanda Cappadue, Via Garibaldi 7, Laveno Mombello (ITALY)

It's a beautiful inn on the Lake Maggiore. The exhibition will be there until the end of September, I'll hop on there every now and then on mondays and some weekends 💕

[captain-price-unofficially]

A British Army M4 tank passes a tram in the Via Garibaldi during the entry into Catania, Sicily, 5 August 1943

#august #operation husky #mediterranean theater #tanks #m4 sherman #american armor #american tanks

[lustspren]

you're a milano ? i recently went and i loved the place. couldn't say the same about rome though.

Yup. I was born and raised there, in an area in the north called Porta Garibaldi, 64 Via Solferino lol

It's a beautiful city, yeah. All Lombardia is, in general. And don't worry, no one likes Roma lmao. You should visit Genova tho. And Florencia.

#asks #questions

[pensierispettinati]

Le strade sono / tutte di Mazzini, di Garibaldi, / son dei papi, / di quelli che scrivono, / che dan dei comandi, che fan la guerra. / E mai che ti capiti di vedere / via di uno che faceva i berretti / via di uno che stava sotto un ciliegio / via di uno che non ha fatto niente / perché andava a spasso / sopra una cavalla. / E pensare che il mondo / è fatto di gente come me / che mangia il radicchio / alla finestra / contenta di stare, d’estate, / a piedi nudi.

[Nino Pedretti]

[ao3feed-babylon5]

A Dream Given Form

A Dream Given Form https://ift.tt/ZCbnA76 by Nicholas Nada (NixNada) A Babylon5 / SG-1 crossover. Daniel gets a mysterious message from a distant place and time, with a very unusual Gate address. Words: 18872, Chapters: 8/8, Language: English Fandoms: Stargate SG-1, Babylon 5 (TV 1993) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter (Stargate), Daniel Jackson (Stargate), Teal'c (Stargate), Michael Garibaldi, Susan Ivanova, Jeffrey Sinclair, G'Kar (Babylon 5), Londo Mollari via AO3 works tagged 'Babylon 5 (TV 1993)' https://ift.tt/J3RHuyP March 17, 2024 at 10:08AM

#IFTTT #AO3 works tagged 'Babylon 5 (TV 1993)' #Babylon 5 #fanfic

[sistemabibliotecariomilano]

Scelti per voi

Fonte: pixabay.com

Una piccola scelta di libri “certificati” dai bibliotecari per distrarvi nel migliore dei modi durante le vacanze. Si tratta di novità, di titoli non recentissimi ma che magari vi sono sfuggiti e meritano attenzione, e di opere da cui sono stati tratti ottimi film.

Se non l’avete ancora letto vi consigliamo L’animale più pericoloso di Luca D’Andrea, del 2020. Ma qual è l’animale più pericoloso? Se non ci si lascia sviare dall’immagine di copertina, si può intuirlo fin dalle prime righe di questo avvincente giallo che ha come tema (argomento di scottante attualità) la salvaguardia dell’ambiente. A parte l’idea di fondo dell’adolescente rapita che ricorda il pregevole La ragazza nella nebbia di Donato Carrisi, la storia si dipana in maniera diversa, dalla location (le montagne della Val Pusteria), ai moventi dei crimini, allo stile, agile, moderno, mai banale. Anche il finale diverge, ma su questo, naturalmente, non sveliamo nient’altro. Rispettata in pieno l’unica regola cui i gialli dovrebbero essere sottoposti: quella di inchiodare il lettore alle pagine, fino alla conclusione.

Pare che le case di ringhiera della vecchia Milano siano una continua fonte di ispirazione per scrittori e assassini: dopo i gialli di Francesco Recami orientati sulla figura dell’ex tappezziere in pensione Amedeo Consonni, è il vice-commissario Enea Zottìa che deve occuparsi di una serie di crimini in un vecchio stabile malandato nel cuore di Milano nell’ultimo libro di Marco Polillo I delitti di corso Garibaldi. Ma le indagini ci porteranno anche a Viboldone, frazione di San Giuliano Milanese e sede di un’antica Abbazia, e all’isola di San Giulio sul lago d’Orta (ebbene sì, proprio nel luogo in cui C’era due volte il barone Lamberto!), dove le vicende, soprattutto sentimentali, dei protagonisti troveranno il loro più naturale scioglimento.

Ambientato sul lago di Como è I milanesi si innamorano il sabato di Gino Vignali, il cui titolo si ispira al famosissimo I milanesi ammazzano al sabato di Scerbanenco (da cui è stato tratto anche un film per la regia di Duccio Tessari). “Dopo la fortunata tetralogia riminese con protagonista Costanza Confalonieri Bonnet, Gino Vignali cambia atmosfere e personaggi ma mantiene intatti il tono scanzonato e il ritmo incalzante che contraddistinguono i suoi fortunati gialli. Suspense, erotismo, umorismo sono gli ingredienti vincenti di un romanzo che, giocando abilmente con dubbi e ossessioni, incertezze e desideri, incanta il lettore in un riverbero di luci e ombre. Come l’acqua del lago, quando sembra calma ma non lo è”.

Non intendiamo certo tralasciare l’ultimo Simenon, L’orsacchiotto, anche questa opera di introspezione, di scavo profondo nella psiche umana aperto a più interpretazioni, una delle quali può essere che non è possibile mantenere sempre il controllo su tutto, anche ad altissimi livelli professionali: dopo una intera esistenza trascorsa all’insegna del più assoluto dominio di sé, una sola deroga al perfetto meccanismo esistenziale che il protagonista si è imposto può costare un prezzo inestimabile.

Torna nell’ultimo romanzo di Fabio Stassi, Notturno francese, il simpatico counselor della rigenerazione esistenziale Vince Corso, ma in questo caso, come per Simenon, l’indagine è introspettiva: un viaggio parallelo nei ricordi dell’infanzia e in treno, lungo la Costa Azzurra, terra d’origine del nostro detective-bibliofilo, trapiantato in Via Merulana. Finalmente sarà svelato il mistero del padre mai conosciuto a cui Vince indirizza cartoline nell’unico luogo che di sicuro aveva frequentato, almeno per una memorabile notte, ovvero il mitico Hotel Negresco.

Folgorante fin dall’incipit, la lettura di Perle ai porci (il titolo originale suona: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine) rende pienamente ragione a Umberto Eco che annoverava Kurt Vonnegut tra i suoi scrittori preferiti:

Uno dei protagonisti di questa storia, storia di uomini e donne, è una grossa somma di denaro, proprio come una grossa quantità di miele potrebbe essere, correttamente, uno dei protagonisti di una storia di api.

Ironico, dissacrante, politicamente scorretto, bizzarro, surreale, a metà strada fra America di Kafka e i racconti di Carver; uno stile veloce, tagliente; un lessico moderno e spiazzante. Se poi vi affezionate a questo autore, allora vi consigliamo Ghiaccio-nove, anche questo composto in una forma originalissima che sconcerta il lettore con la sua imprevedibile fantasia che scardina completamente gli schemi narrativi tradizionali. Strutturato a brevi capitoli sullo stile del Tristram Shandy di Sterne è un libro trasgressivo, esilarante fino al demenziale, davvero “uno dei tre migliori romanzi dell’anno scritto dal più grande scrittore vivente” come lo accolse Graham Greene nel 1963, anno della pubblicazione. Una potente satira della società contemporanea, che punta in particolare alla condanna della guerra, argomento quanto mai tristemente attuale.

Lo spaccone  di Walter Tevis è un romanzo di formazione in cui il protagonista svolge il suo “apprendistato” (come lo definisce Fabio Stassi nella prefazione all’edizione minimum fax) nelle sale da biliardo dove sbarca il lunario spennando ‘polli’ grazie al suo non comune talento. Ma la conquista della consapevolezza comporta un prezzo molto alto: la coscienza del proprio valore si paga con la perdita della libertà. Un libro con i fiocchi che non poteva non ispirare un capolavoro come il film di Robert Rossen del 1961 con un Paul Newman perfettamente incarnato nella parte di Eddie Felson, The Fast, ‘lo svelto’. A voi il piacere di scoprire le differenze (che ci sono, e anche notevoli) tra il libro e il film. Newman rivestirà lo stesso ruolo nel 1986 come mentore del giovane Tom Cruise in Il colore dei soldi, per la regia di Scorsese, sempre dal sequel di Tevis.

Da La morte corre sul fiume di Davis Grubb è stato tratto nel 1955 per la regia di Charles Laughton un film talmente bello e originale proprio dal punto di vista tecnico da far rimpiangere che si tratti dell’unico exploit come regista da parte del celeberrimo attore britannico. Tratto da una drammatica storia vera, il romanzo si dispiega su più piani narrativi: il tema fiabesco, reso da Laughton con splendide immagini dello sfondo naturale notturno, il noir e la denuncia del fanatismo religioso. “La storia è qualcosa di più, se possibile, dei fatti che la compongono, è un’omelia nera, una lunga e cupa ballata atroce almeno quanto le filastrocche infantili che di tanto in tanto la interrompono, risuonando nel vuoto”.

Non è una storia dell’orrore, come il precedente Dracula, che tanta popolarità diede al suo creatore, Bram Stoker: Il gioiello dalle sette stelle è soprattutto un racconto d’avventura, i cui protagonisti, sorta di Indiana Jones tra le mummie, sono morbosamente infatuati dalla passione per la storia egizia. A metà tra il romanzo gotico di stampo ottocentesco e l’egittomania molto diffusa all’epoca, tanto da influenzare anche Conan Doyle e Poe, è un romanzo piacevole e adatto come lettura per le vacanze. Tra culto della reincarnazione, sarcofagi, ricerche archeologiche, luoghi affascinanti come il misterioso Egitto e la nebbiosa Londra, abbiamo anche la possibilità di scegliere tra due finali, perché il pubblico non gradì il primo e costrinse l’autore, pare, a riscriverne uno nuovo nella seconda edizione uscita nel 1912, anno della sua morte. In questa ristampa di ABEditore del 2022 sono presenti entrambe le varianti.

#luca d'andrea #francesco recami #marco polillo #gianni rodari #gino vignali #Georges Simenon #fabio stassi #kurt vonnegut #walter tevis #paul newman #martin scorsese #davis grubb #charles laughton #Robert Mitchum #bram stoker

[ask-the-hws-immigrants]

Romano! Forgive me, but I am very curious, what was the Risorgimento like?

At least in America I don't have a shitload of politicians and bigger empires reminding me of my inadequacies. Just a babe in the woods who's outcompeting my grain sales while I mop his floor.

**Historical Note: In 1816 after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Southern Italy (Naples and Sicily) became the fully independent Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. It was one of the largest and more powerful Italian states, however, it suffered from unrest throughout the 19th century due to opposition of the conservative Bourbon monarchy and administrative differences between Naples and Sicily. However, despite opposing the monarchy, many Southern Italians were in favor of rewriting the constitution rather than Italian Unification. Even those in favor of Unification were often in favor of strong regional governments within a united Italy rather than a centralized Italian government. 

In 1860, revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi planned an invasion on behalf of the Piedmontese government. His plan was secretly supported by the British Empire, who had an interest in stunting Sicily's power in the Mediterranean and cheaply acquiring Sicilian sulfur. In March, Garibaldi led an expedition of roughly 1,000 men escorted by British gunboats to invade Sicily. He persisted into Naples and on October 21st, The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was officially annexed via referendum. When Garibaldi entered Naples, he was largely welcomed by its citizens. King Francis II remained besieged in the fortress of Gaeta until he abdicated in February 1861, at which point the conquest could truly be regarded as complete. It left Venetia and Rome as the only provinces left to be added, as Venetia remained under Austria rule until 1866 and Pope Pius IX rejected the idea of papal territory being absorbed into the rest of Italy. 

Although Garibaldi had been welcomed by the majority of the population in Naples, the new government still faced resistance from insurgent groups still loyal to the Bourbons or to the Pope, and later peasants affected by Northern economic policy. Additionally, instead of appointing regional leaders, Southern Italy came to be ruled over by officials from the Piedmont who regarded the South as “barbaric” and needing Northern guidance to become “civilized.” Some even regarded Southerners as not being “truly Italian”, and often propped up these ideas with racist pseudoscience. The government focused its industrialization efforts on the North and saddled the South with unequal tax rates and tariffs.. The South’s agricultural economy struggled to compete, especially with cheaper grain alternatives from countries such as the United States. 

The economic situation in Southern Italy after the Risorgimento and general unrest throughout Italy were the largest reasons for the wave of Italian immigrants that arrived in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. 

#hetalia #historical hetalia #hws romano #hws veneziano #hws italy #aph romano #aph veneziano #aph italy #hetalia ask blog #just wanna say this is very much a sparknotes version of southern italy during the risorgimento #for more risorgimento focused fanworks I highly recommend ask-risorgimento-italy #though focused on veneziano rather than romano it's definitely got a lot more in-depth content about it