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. He enrolled in the Corpo Volontari Italiani (Italian Volunteers Corps) which fought against the

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ns in 1866, during the Italian independence wars. Later he was called by

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for his expedition to save the

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expedition in

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, a principality of

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. Afterwards he led several explorations in that country. During the last of them, he was killed by the Afar tribes, together with Ettore Biglieri and thirty-one seamen of the ship '' Ettore Fieramosca'' in the southern

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. The location of the massacre was identified by L.M. Nesbitt and his two Italian associates as the Tio waterhole in 1928, who erected a cairn to mark the spot. The explorers were then threatened by the local Afar who believed that they would then exact revenge for the deaths over a generation ago, and Nesbitt was able to talk their way out of certain death only with great difficulty.Nesbitt, ''Hell-Hole of Creation: The Exploration of Abyssinian Danakil'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935), pp. 300-326 In his memory,

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named the lake he discovered in 1929 "Lake Giulietti" (also known as

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). Giulietti's memoirs were published in 1882.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giulietti, Giuseppe Maria 1847 births 1881 deaths Explorers of Africa Italian soldiers Italian explorers Italian geographers People from the Province of Pavia 19th-century Italian people 19th-century geographers