A small, almost hidden, square along Passeggiata del Gianicolo houses the Monument to Ana (Anita) Maria Ribeiro da Silva, the Brazilian first wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi; after the fall of Rome she joined her husband who was attempting to reach Venice; she died of fever in Comacchio; the following is an excerpt from G. M. Trevelyan's Garibaldi's Defence of Rome:
"With infinite difficulty and danger they (Garibaldi and his friend Bonnet) proceeded to carry the agonising woman across two miles to Cavallina farm, where they arrived well after midday; (..) here Anita was laid on a bed and given such nourishment as she could take. (..) Garibaldi took Anita in a cart towards the Zanetto farm on the borders of the great lagoon, where, at Bonnet's request, every comfort was being prepared. (..) Anita growing hourly worse, and no longer well able to understand what was going on around her, was in agony at the idea of being separated from Garibaldi. Bonnet - he said at last - you cannot imagine all that this woman has done for me, nor how tenderly she loves me. I owe her an immense debt of gratitude and love. Let her come with me.(..) Anita in her last hours still held by the not dogmatic religion of her husband; during her long death agony throughout the first four days of August, there were no sign of craving on her part for those miraculous consolations which she had rejected in her days of health and strength. Dying on the breast of Garibaldi. she needed no priest. (..) The last words that Garibaldi had heard Anita say to him concerned the children whom she left to his care (she was carrying their fifth child when she died). Then for long hours her speech had failed. All day she was losing her hold on life, and Garibaldi could but clasp her closer in his arms, as their boat glided over the smooth surface of the lagoon. No longer conscious of anything save that he was there, the dying woman may have fancied that they were escaping once more over the well-known waters of another lagoon now all too far away; or that they were riding together to war in the first glory of youth and love, over rolling, infinite spaces."

Faro del Gianicolo

(left/centre) Faro del Gianicolo; (right) detail