Critical of earlier historians who tended to treat Garibaldi with condescension, Ms Riall is anxious to display him as the resourceful manipulator of his own legend.

对于那些认为加里波第好强人所难的早期历史学家所做出的批判，Riall女士急于展示出加里波第在其自身的传奇中其实是一位足智多谋的领军人物。