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Garibaldi's retreat to his home in Caprera spawned a liberal-nationalist ideal of statesmanship that would live long in the European imagination. At the end of his triumphant military campaign in southern Italy in 1860, the Italian nationalist hero, Giuseppe Garibaldi, handed over power to the king of Piedmont. He then returned from Naples to his home on the island of Caprera.
During the 1960s, it became the fashion among college students to display the image of the Argentine-born communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Although his actual achievements amounted to little outside of Cuba, Che’s flamboyant and romantic persona appealed to the equally flamboyant and romantic sensibilities of the young. In some respects, however, Che was merely aping the style of a far more successful man from the prior century: Guiseppe Garibaldi.
Francis Drake returned to Plymouth in 1580 as the first seaman to lead and successfully complete a voyage around the globe. It was some feat for a low-born Devonshire lad and, unsurprisingly, the voyage elevated him to the first rank of early modern celebrity. Drake’s achievement and his legacy were used to propagate ideas of Britain’s seafaring prowess, as it moved from the colonial aspirations of the 17th century to the 19th-century expansion of empire.
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