Project Gutenberg 2025-07-17 Public domain in the USA. 184 Guerzoni, Giuseppe 1835 1886 Memorie d'un disertore, vol. 1/3 : $b storia d'una famiglia di patriotti $aMilano :$bTreves, $c1871. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense - Milano) "Memorie d'un disertore, vol. 1/3: storia d'una famiglia di patriotti" by Guerzoni is a historical novel written in the late 19th century. It presents a sweeping family chronicle centered on the seafarer Battista Santafiori, a figure inspired by Garibaldi’s spirit, whose life intersects with the American, Haitian, and French revolutions. The narrative explores ideals of liberty, abolition, and civic duty while following the fortunes and faults of a family of “patriots.” This first volume focuses on the father’s odyssey and the moral legacy he tries to instill in his children. The opening of the narrative begins with a preface recounting the book’s composition at Caprera and the loss and reconstruction of parts of the manuscript, then declares Battista Santafiori the living embodiment of humane courage learned at sea. We meet him as a Genoese boy, “Baciccia/Murena,” who becomes a master mariner, reforms his friend Livio (the son of Captain Gordiglia) after rescuing him from a brawl, and builds fortune only to spend it generously. He rejects the slave trade, founds an enlightened plantation in Virginia where he frees and fairly employs Black workers, debates with George Washington, and fights for the American cause as a privateer and blockade runner. Summoned by the Haitian uprising, he saves Livio’s widow Rosalia and her child from the “terror nero,” later marrying her and settling near Nice, where his philanthropy grows as his faith in Napoleonic “glory” wanes; the family expands (including stepson Michele), finances strain, and Battista returns to the sea. The section closes by contrasting Battista’s moral rigor with Michele’s vanity and idleness: sent to school in Genoa, the youth is dazzled by imperial pageantry and falls into the orbit of a calculating seductress—setting the stage for future trouble. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20240811024335guerzoni 1871 IT Reading ease score: 48.5 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882 -- Fiction PQ Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Adventure Category: Novels 288741 2025-07-30T08:32:42.075609 text/html 262784 2025-07-17T13:10:22 text/html 297218 2025-07-30T08:32:48.708555 application/epub+zip 294810 2025-07-30T08:32:43.900569 application/epub+zip 294810 2025-07-30T08:32:42.884586 application/epub+zip 1071459 2025-07-30T08:32:52.509555 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1043497 2025-07-30T08:32:48.007586 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 255695 2025-07-30T08:32:41.175610 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 235727 2025-07-17T13:10:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13460 2025-07-30T08:32:52.656558 application/rdf+xml 17453 2025-07-30T08:32:43.203568 image/jpeg 2623 2025-07-30T08:32:43.039571 image/jpeg 1066058 2025-07-30T08:32:42.139117 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog