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Giuseppina Vadalà
Giuseppina Vadalà (; 1824 in Messina – 7 October 1914 in Santiago de Chile) was an Italian patriot. Biography Revolutionary activity Giuseppina Vadalà fought together with her sister Paolina during the Siege of Messina, the revolt for Italian unification that took place in Messina on September 5, 1848. Messinese by birth, she was the daughter of the patriot Pietro Vadalà and wife of Orazio Nicosia, another fighter who joined the revolt against the Bourbons of Naples. Giuseppina had three children: Totò, Orazio, and Bianca. When her elder son Totò grew up, he decided to move to Naples, where he threw himself, heart and soul, into the cause of Italian unification. When her daughter Bianca was grown to womanhood, she married Giovanni Bovio, a noted philosopher and republican politician. The Italian government awarded Vadalà the Silver Medal of Military Valor for her part in pro-unification battles during the years 1848–1849 and 1860. Castroreale and Cristo Lungo Acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messina
Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 216,918 inhabitants in the city proper and about 595,948 in the metropolitan city as of 2025. It is located near the northeast corner of Sicily, at the Strait of Messina and it is an important access terminal to Calabria region, Villa San Giovanni, Reggio Calabria on the mainland. Founded by the Sicels with the name of ''Zancle'' in 757 BC, which in Siculian, their language meant sickle, it was repopulated by Greek colonisation, Greek colonists of Magna Graecia and renamed ''Messana''. The city was renamed ''Messina'' in the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine age. It was an important Roman Empire, Roman, and then Byzantine Empire, Greek-Byzantine city, but in 843 it was completely destroyed by the Arabs. Almost abandoned during the Islamic period, it rose again i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
