[Illustration: _ENGRAVED BY T.B. WELCH, (PHIL^A) FROM A DAGUERROTYPE BY M.A. & S. ROOT._ G. Garibaldi ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE LIFE OF GENERAL GARIBALDI, TRANSLATED FROM HIS PRIVATE PAPERS; WITH THE HISTORY OF HIS SPLENDID EXPLOITS IN ROME, LOMBARDY, SICILY AND NAPLES, TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY THEODORE DWIGHT, AUTHOR OF "A TOUR IN ITALY IN 1821," "THE ROMAN REPUBLIC OF 1849," ETC. ETC. Embellished with a Fine Engraved Portrait on Steel, AND AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR. ------- NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 498 BROADWAY. 1861. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by DERBY & JACKSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper. GEO. RUSSELL & CO., Printers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION. THE following pages are principally written by the pen of the hero of our age, that pure-hearted man—that devoted patriot, and noble, generous, and disinterested philanthropist—that spirited, undaunted, and indomitable warrior, whose splendid deeds have dazzled the world, and whose career, according to his own recent declaration, will be brought to its close by a final triumph, for which he is now preparing, to be gained early in the present year. While General Garibaldi resided in New York and its vicinity, in the years 1850 and '51, the author of this book enjoyed his acquaintance, and the favor of receiving from him his private memoirs, with permission to translate and publish them.[1] They had just been prepared for the press, when Garibaldi requested that they might be withholden from the public while he remained in this country, probably because he preferred to be unnoticed, being at that time employed in making candles on Staten Island, and naturally fond of retirement.