An interesting article recently posted on the Guardian web site by Tim Parks. This piece is a follow-up to his recent excellent book--The Hero's Way--about his retracing Garibaldi's March from Rome to Ravenna. Last summer, he retraced the subsequent march from Ravenna back across the peninsula to the Tuscan coast the next year.
www.theguardian.com
A walk across Italy in Garibaldi’s footsteps: from Ravenna to the coast of Tuscany
A route tracing the hero’s flight across the peninsula in 1849 runs spectacularly over the Apennines then descends to the sea via a string of gorgeous Tuscan towns