Among these the vice-presidents of the Senate and of the Chamber (Alfieri di Sostegno and Giuseppe Farini), the Hon. Francesco Crispi who will hold the funeral oration and General Ferrero representing the Army Staff, arrived from Civitavecchia aboard the hydrographic vessel Washington and the captain of the vessel Tòmaso di Savoia, Duke of Genoa representing King Umberto who arrived from Civitavecchia with the Explorer alert.
Due to his strong feeling of justice and freedom, becoming an active part of the South American populations first and then Italians (he was a key element for national unification), he acquired the nickname of Hero of the Two Worlds.
Little known is having named the first capital of Italy when, in Sicily, after the famous landing of the thousand and proclaiming Duce of the island, it symbolically donated this conquest to the King (Vittorio Emanuele II) and in this that was the embryo of the unification of Italy, appoints the town of SALEMI the nation's capital.
Source: Military Navy
