RARE 1859 SHEET MUSIC: INNO DI GARIBALDI ~ Spartito d\'epoca Inno di Garibaldi For Sale

CATALOG DESCRIPTION / SCHEDA CATALOGRAFICA Overview & Identification Title: Inno di Garibaldi (Originally titled: La canzone italiana) Composer: Alessio Olivieri (Chief Musician of the Brigata Savoia) Lyricist: Luigi Mercantini Publisher: Francesco Lucca (Milano) / Distributed via Ducci (Firenze)Date of Publication: Mid-to-Late 1859 (Coinciding with the Second Italian War of Independence)Plate Number (Numero di Lastra): 6166 (Struck from the original 1859 engraved metal plates) Format: Folio, engraved sheet music score (Piano/Vocal arrangement).Visual & Physical Characteristics Cover Art: Features a rare and highly dynamic, authentic 19th-century lithographic engraving depicting a fierce battle scene of Italian infantry soldiers charging into combat. Cover Typography: Prominently bears the revolutionary, anti-Austrian wartime battle cry printed directly onto the main cover display: \"Va fuora d\'Italia va fuora o stranier\" (Get out of Italy, get out, foreigner!).Imprint Details: Features the multi-city cooperative distribution text linking the primary publisher Lucca in Milan with the Florentine agent Ducci (Firenze, Ducci), characteristic of pre-unification Italian publishing. Historical Significance & Provenance. This item is an exceptional and highly scarce museum-grade artifact from the peak of the Italian Risorgimento. While later late-19th-century editions often sanitized the cover art or diluted the anti-foreign political slogans to suit standard parlor-music formats, this specific copy embraces the aggressive, raw patriotism of the 1859 Campaign. The sequential plate number 6166 provides definitive, unassailable chronological proof that this sheet music was manufactured and circulated during the actual military campaign of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Cacciatori delle Alpi. It represents a tangible piece of psychological warfare and cultural history, printed while the borders of modern Italy were being actively redrawn on the battlefield. Wear and handling; foxing; two-inch tear to inside pages, etc.. Still in good collectible condition and the cover art is certainly in frameable condition. Rare.
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