This room is where originally Garibaldy and Anita lived, and we ofter refer to it as "Garibaldi's room". It is thus endowed with a painting of the hero, and also with books and illustrations about the hero and his wife Anita. The most famous Italian hero and his wife stayed in this room during to the 1849 uprising, which brought to a temporary independence of Rome (until it was finally conquered by the Italian patriots in 1870).
The room is accessed from the sitting room, through a passage space. It is rather spacious, with sobre yet well appointed furnitures and fittings. Like the sitting room, it overlooks Via delle Carrozze. The two separate beds and their heads have a rather classical look.
There is also a desk with chairs, and a large wardrobe, with many doors and sections. The room is endowed with a carpet, and with a Garibaldi portrait (books and illustrations on the hero and his wife Anita, a heroine herself can be found both in this room and in the sitting room).
The cover of the beds and the chairs are red, because this was the colour of the soldiers of Garibaldi, the "Garibaldini", also called "Camicie Rosse" (red shirts). After having failed in 1848 to liberate Rome from the Kingdom of the Popes, in 1860 Garibaldi with 1,000 Garibaldini liberated all Southern and Central Italy, fighting many battles with the far more numerous armies of the Bourbon Kings. Rome was eventually liberated from the political power of the Popes in 1870, when it was captured by the Italian Army.
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