The Encounter of Teano, Fiesole

Originally the work had an accompanying stone obelisk which was destroyed during a bombing raid during World War II.

[1] At the meeting at the bridge, after the successful Expedition of the Thousand, defeating the forces of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Garibaldi hailed Vittorio Emanuele II as king of an Italy stretching from the Alps to Sicily.

Instead a number of wealthy patrons and other donors in Fiesole were able to purchase the statues.

[2] Not unexpectedly, the men face in opposite directions while they shake hands, with the King's horse slightly more nervously a pace.

See the painting by Carlo Ademollo depicting The Handshake of Teano.