Born
1838 in Parma,
Italy, an
Italian patriot and
writer/
poet. He took part as a
soldier in the expedition of
Giuseppe Garibaldi into
Sicily to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy in
1860, which he celebrated in his poem "Arrigo" and also in the book
Noterelle d'uno die Mille (rendered in English as "The Diary of one of Garibaldi's Thousand.") The book is described by the London
Times Literary Supplement as deserving "its reputation for its carefully sustained
spontaneity, its graphic
clarity, and above all for its air of
genuine
heroism and unaffected
modesty." Abba also wrote
Storia dei mille, published in
1906 for young readers, and other works about the fight for Italian unification.
He died in
1910.
Sources: Everybody's Cyclopedia
http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313224/0313224463.html
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/hist/garib/garib4.html