People of the Risorgimento - Italian People of the Risorgimento, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Collodi, Pope Pius IX (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 86. Chapters: Italian people of the Risorgimento, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Collodi, Pope Pius IX, Goffredo Mameli, Bandiera Brothers, Antonio Meucci, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Istvan Turr, Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, Francesco Crispi, Francesco Nullo, Pier Alessandro Paravia, Andrea Aguyar, Vincenzo Gioberti, Daniele Manin, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Mario Rapisardi, Anita Garibaldi, Silvio Pellico, Giuseppe Sirtori, Giuditta Tavani Arquati, Carlo Cattaneo, Francesco Bentivegna, Francesco Melzi d'Eril, Guglielmo Pepe, Andrea Maffei, Carlo Lombardi, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Manfredo Fanti, Francesco Arquati, Pellegrino Rossi, Luciano Manara, Carlo Passaglia, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi, Annibale Santorre di Rossi de Pomarolo, Count of Santarosa, Stefan Dunjov, Ugo Bassi, Baldassare Verazzi, Carlo Pisacane, Giovanni Nicotera, Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Giuditta Bellerio Sidoli, Carlo Poerio, Aurelio Saffi, Luigi Settembrini, Alessandro Ferrero La Marmora, Liborio Romano, Clara Maffei, Eleuterio Pagliano, Jan Philip Koelman, Emilio Dandolo, Enrico Cosenz, Ciro Menotti, Giuseppe Dezza, Ricciotti Garibaldi, Giacomo Medici, Florestano Pepe, Tito Speri, Luigi Miceli, Enrico Dandolo, Aurelio Saliceti, Emilio Morosini, John Whitehead Peard, Giovanni Battista Cavedalis, Carlo Tenca. Excerpt: Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian pronunciation: April 13, 1808 - October 18, 1889) was a compatriot of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, and an inventor, best known for developing a voice communication apparatus which several sources credit as the first telephone. Meucci set up a form of voice communication link in his Staten Island home that connected its second floor bedroom to his laboratory. He submitted a patent caveat for his telephone-like device in 1871, which he did not renew after 1874. In 1876, ...