A Genoese court sentenced Giuseppe Mazzini and…

A Genoese court sentenced Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi to death in absentia for plotting a military expedition into territory of the House of Savoy. Mazzini flees across the border to Marseille.

Garibaldi's family's involvement in coastal trade had drawn him to a life at sea.

He had participated actively in the Nizzardo Italians community and was certified in 1832 as a merchant navy captain.

In April 1833 he had traveled to Taganrog, Russia, in the schooner Clorinda with a shipment of oranges.

During ten days in port he met Giovanni Battista Cuneo from Oneglia, a politically active immigrant and member of the secret Young Italy movement of Giuseppe Mazzini.

Mazzini is an impassioned proponent of Italian unification as a liberal republic through political and social reform.

Garibaldi had joined the society and had taken an oath dedicating himself to the struggle to liberate and unify his homeland free from Austrian dominance.

Garibaldi had met Mazzin in Geneva during November 1833, starting a long relationship that will later become troublesome.

He had joined the Carbonari revolutionary association, and in February 1834 participates in the failed Mazzinian insurrection in Piedmont.