Italian politician
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Alberto Mario (Lendinara, 4 June 1825 – 2 June 1883) was an Italian politician, journalist and supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi.[1] His wife was Jessie White, an English supporter of Garibaldi.
Alfonso Scirocco Garibaldi: Citizen of the World - 2007 Page 273 0691115400 "A month and a half after the fall of Palermo, Garibaldi's troop and Bourbon troops were again facing each other. Garibaldi understood that his prestige was at stake. The following day he sent six hundred men under the command of Colonel Dunne, an Englishman. They were mainly youths recruited from the streets by Jessie White's husband, Alberto Mario, and following military training they were to acquit themselves very well. Mario himself had left on the City of Aberdeen with a group of crack Genoese carabinieri, and the ship had also brought nine hundred volunteers led by Vincenzo Strambio.."
