Watch VoirFilms. While in America, Giusseppe Garibaldi met and married Anita Ribeira. When war loomed in Italy in 1848, Anita followed him to defend the Roman Republic. After defeat, they fled; pursued, they hid in the Comacchio marshes. Exhausted by hardship, Anita died on August 1849 in a hut at the Guiccioli farm.