Giuseppe Garibaldi, a Nicois sailor of Ligurian ascent turned Italian nationalist revolutionary, had fled Europe in 1836 and was fighting on behalf of a separatist republic in southern Brazil (the Ragamuffin War).
It is named after Anita Garibaldi, the Brazilian wife and comrade-in-arms of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Giuseppe Garibaldi | Anita Bryant | Anita Hill | Anita Baker | Santa Anita Park | Garibaldi | Anita Ekberg | Anita Dobson | Anita O'Day | Anita Mui | Anita Kert Ellis | Michael Garibaldi | Anita Roddick | Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station | Anita Pallenberg | Anita Loos | Anita Shapira | Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | Anita Dorris | Anita Ward | Anita Silvey | Anita Page | Anita Kanter | Anita Hoffman | Anita Hegh | Anita Harris | Anita Guha | Anita Ganeri | Anita Delgado | Anita C. Hill |