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  The artist has portrayed Garibaldi as holding on to the base of the boot, so that the King of Sardinia-Piedmont can enter it from the top. Look at the map of Italy once more. What statement is this caricature making?       Garibaldi helping King Victor Emmanuel II Sardinia-Piedmont to pull on boot named

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                  The base of the boot symbolises the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which lay in the Southernmost part of the Italian peninsula. Garibaldi had won this Kingdom and handed it over to King Victor Emmanuel II. This cartoon signifies the unification of Italy and Garibaldi's role in it.