Just about every Italian city has a statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) and this one is located at Giardini dell’Arena. It’s not going to appear in any guidebooks as a site of some interest, but it’s an important reminder as to who was seen as worth remembering in late nineteenth century Italy.
The statue was placed here in 1886, a few years after the death of Garibaldi, famous for his biscuits and unification of a country. The marble statue was designed by Ambrogio Borghi (1848-1887) and it was originally placed in perhaps the more appropriately named Piazza Garibaldi, before the statue was moved here instead in the twentieth century.
As for why I’ve granted this statue the honour of an entire blog post which barely registers on the scale of global importance (that’s relevant to the statue and this blog actually), but these faintly trivial moments often linger far longer in the memory than the supposedly big ones, so that’s why it’s here.