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Why did Giuseppe Garibaldi go into exile again after the fall of the Roman Republic?

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Portrait of Giuseppe Garibaldi wearing a beret and cloak, with a full beard and mustache, looking toward the camera. — Giuseppe Garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi, c. 1860–82.

Following the fall of the Roman Republic in July 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi led a daring retreat through central Italy to avoid capture by French and Austrian forces, eventually reaching the neutral republic of San Marino.12

Despite his heroic resistance, he was forced into exile again because the Piedmontese monarchy viewed him as a dangerous rebel and was too intimidated to allow him to return to his family in Italy. Consequently, Garibaldi spent several years abroad, living in Tangier, Staten Island, and Peru, where he resumed his former profession as a ship’s captain. He was not permitted to return to Italy until 1854, when the prime minister Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour, allowed his repatriation in an effort to distance him from the republican leader Giuseppe Mazzini.3