Keywords

• The Expedition of the Thousand may be considered the first media event in Italian history.
• Many journalists from all over the world followed Giuseppe Garibaldi to Sicily and enthusiastically described the various phases of the war before international public opinion.
• In particular
• such famous writers as Alexandre Dumas transformed the Battle of Milazzo into myth
• in line with the winnersâ€
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• point of view. Nevertheless
• there are also the memories of the losers. And although these memories certainly represent a partial viewpoint
• they may be useful to those historians that wish to reconstruct a multifaceted history that cannot be reconstructed from the myth