The Farroupilha Revolt would bring more than just a wind of freedom to young Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro. During the uprising for independence in the then Province of São Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul, the young woman born in Laguna met the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi. From this encounter, a great love would blossom that would mark the history of Brazil. Adopting her partner's surname, Anita Garibaldi would live days of intense passion and struggle. For her bravery, she is known to this day as one of the most courageous women of her time and earned the nickname "Queen of Two Worlds." The story of this great woman is told in a fictionalized manner by journalist João Felício dos Santos in *A Guerrilla Fighter: The Romance of the Life of Anita Garibaldi*. Based on historical documents, the book retraces the life of this 19th-century Brazilian woman, who abandoned her needle and sewing to follow a man thirsting for revolution. As he did in his other books—Xica da Silva, Carlota Joaquina, and Gamga Zumba—João Felício dos Santos goes beyond the already known passages of this remarkable woman's life, revealing obscure episodes. Anita lived with Garibaldi for ten years until her death. Inspired by Garibaldi's own memoirs, the author reveals a Brazilian woman capable of entering the battlefield with the same ease with which she entered the kitchen or the living room. This intriguing and unique profile is sensitively drawn by Joaquim Felício dos Santos, an author who masters history and its transformations, without ever losing his sensitivity.
