From The Golden Century of Italian Opera, William Weaver (Thames and Hudson; NY 1980) ML 1733.w4

ed. note: I didnīt get the page #. Could someone please find it and send it to me?

...and on 16 July during the summer pause, the double-bass player Giovanni Bottesini and the clarinettist Ernesto Cavallini gave a special benefit concert for the wounded in Sicily, where Garibaldi and his Thousand had landed in May.