Caprera

Caprera, one of a group of small islands called the Buccinari Islands, in the Strait of Bonifacio, to the east of the northern extremity of Sardinia, from which it is separated by a strait less than 2 miles broad. Measuring 6 by 2 miles, and $10\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ sq. m. in area, it is rocky, bare, and unfertile, with no streams, and few places adapted either for the pasture of cattle or for the plough. In former times it was the abode only of wild goats—whence its name (Lat. and Ital. capra, 'a goat')—and rabbits, and was occasionally visited by goat-herds and fishermen. It was the much-loved home of Garibaldi from 1854 till his death here on 2d June 1882. He was buried behind his house. In 1885 the island was purchased from his heirs by the Italian government.