Marble cenotaph to Italian politician Giuseppe La Farina, who was an influential leader of the Italian Risorgimento, in the first cloister of the Basilica di Santa Croce (Basilica of the Holy Cross) in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
Giuseppe La Farina (20 July 1815 in Messina – 5 September 1863 in Torino) was an influential leader of the Italian Risorgimento. Founder of the national society in 1857, a society dedicated to the unification of Italy.
He joined the Italian unification movement very early. During the Italian Revolution of 1848, he successively served as a member of the Sicilian Parliament, Minister of Public Education and Engineering, and Minister of Army and Navy. After the failure of the revolution, he lived in Paris. To Turin in 1853. In 1857, he participated in the creation of the Italian National Association. He had funded Garibaldi to organize the Red Shirts to liberate Sicily, but he was deported to Genoa for advocating the merger of Sicily with the Kingdom of Sardinia. Later became a member of the House of Representatives and State Advisor of the Kingdom of Italy. The main works include "History of Italy" (ten volumes), "History of Italy from 1815 to 1850", "The Sicilian Revolution from 1848 to 1849" and so on.
