Garibaldi was here?! La Scoperta del Giorno

The latest in the now-and-then RST feature, La Scoperta del Giorno (the discovery of the day or, better put in English, Today’s Discovery). The Italian word “scoperta,” and its English equivalent, “discovery,” are similarly constructed; each is based on the verb “to cover” (coprire/to cover) and each is converted into “uncover” or “discover” with a prefix (the “s” in Italian, the “dis” in English).

Yesterday evening we headed up the hill to Villa Fiorelli, a small, comfortably round "pocket park" about a 10-minute walk from Piazza dei Re di Roma. We remember it from 1993, when we lived close by on via Nicastro, and last night it was humming with young children and their mothers enjoying the light at dusk. What we don't remember from decades past--and probably never saw--is a plaque commemorating the July 2, 1849 departure of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his red-shirted companions, from the very ground we were standing on and the kids were playing on, headed for Venice on their epic 30-day March on behalf of Italian independence. 

         And that's La Scoperta del Giorno for the evening of November 4, 2025. 

Bill 

See here for an RST post on Garibaldi in Rome.