Garibaldi

Thank to Riccardo, here is the 4-July Italian stamp for the bicentenary of Garibaldi, hero of the Rio Grande do Sul fight for independance, of the Italian unification, and the only French army commander to win a battle at Dijon during the 1870 war against the Prussians.

The commemorative stamp is not the first day cover one (in Italy FD cancellation are black and white reinterpretation of the stamp).

Cristina Bruscaglia's stamp used historic documents, such an old view of the house in Nice where Giuseppe was born (then in Piedmont-Sardinia, French in 1860).

Here are the stamps issued for this anniversary (list waited for the postal administrations to declare their stamps). In France, some have been signing a petition to force La Poste to issue a stamp for Garibaldi, born in Nice, French citizen by the treaty of 1860 and defensor of the country in 1870. défenseur du pays en 1870.