Naples. Garibaldi’s arrival is paradoxical amidst the general chaos of power in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. No one knows who commands what. The general arrives virtually alone, without an escort, in the kingdom’s capital. To ensure the train he is arriving on arrives on time, a convoy carrying fully armed royal soldiers is diverted onto a siding. The crowd that welcomes him gathers beneath the fort, with cannons still ready to fire. In the carriage carrying him through the streets, Liborio Romano, the king’s police minister, is beside him, formally in full command.
