THE WOMAN IN RED Anita Garibaldi

Portrait of Anita Garibaldi. She wears a black gown with wide white collar, dangly gold earrings and gold and red pendant necklace.
Portrait of Anita Garibaldi c 1845 by Gaetano Gallino

Anita Garibaldi is celebrated as a national heroine in three countries and on two continents. Yet the true stories of her remarkable, almost unbelievable life have seldom been told, and her legacy has been claimed, and used, by generations of men since her death in 1849. Hear the astonishing life of the “mother of Italy,” Brazilian gaucho revolutionary Anita Garibaldi.

Our guest is Diana Giovinazzo, author of the forthcoming novel The Woman in Red.




Diana GiovinazzoDiana Giovinazzo, author of The Woman in Red is the co-creator of Wine, Women and Words, a weekly  literary podcast featuring interviews with authors over a glass of wine. Diana is active within her local literary community as the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. The Woman in Red is her debut novel.


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