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Cavour

 By Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco
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By Evelyn Lilian
Hazeldine Carrington
Martinengo-Cesaresco
, Evelyn Martinengo
Cesaresco
Published 1898
The Macmillan Company
222 pages
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Nov 1, 2007
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Cavour, Piedmont, Turin
37
Cavour, Anglomane, Charles Albert
55
Risorgimento, Rattazzi, Lord Palmerston
73
Lord Palmerston, Rattazzi, Sardinian
90
Lamoriciere, Garibaldi, Prussia

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Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes... - Page 36

From these the feeble heart and long-fall'n mind An easy compensation seem to find. Here may be seen, in bloodless pomp array'd, The paste-board triumph and the cavalcade, Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. - Page vi

The new series does not aim at including every statesman who has made his mark in the history of his country ; it is necessarily limited to a selection from those who have exercised a commanding influence on the general course of European affairs, and impressed their memory deeply on the minds of men. The series will be edited by Professor BURY of Trinity College, Dublin. - Page 223

... although with an uneasy consciousness that the crisis had been unduly precipitated, felt and said that the time for hesitation and procrastination had gone by. On the 23rd of March he made an impassioned appeal to arms in the " Risorgimento " : " We, men of cool minds, accustomed to listen rather to the dictates of reason than to the impulses of the heart, after we have weighed carefully every word we have to utter, are bound in duty to declare the truth. There is but one path open for the nation,... - Page 49

Cavour," said Lord Palmerston, in the British House of Commons, "left a name 'to point a moral and adorn a tale.' The moral was, that a man of transcendent talent, indomitable industry, inextinguishable patriotism, could overcome difficulties which seemed insurmountable, and confer the greatest, the most inestimable benefits on his country. The tale with which his memory would be associated was the most extraordinary, the most romantic, in the annals of the world. A people which had seemed dead had... - Page 216

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd ; The sports of children satisfy the child. Each nobler aim, represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul... - Page vi

Content you with monopolising heaven, And let this little hanging ball alone : For, give you but a foot of conscience there, And you, like Archimedes, toss the globe. - Page 218

The moral is this — that a man of transcendent talents, of indomitable energy, and of inextinguishable patriotism, may, by the impulses which his own single mind may give to his countrymen, aiding a righteous cause, and seizing favourable opportunities, notwithstanding difficulties that appear at first sight... - Page 216

... the ignoble domination of Spanish and Austrians, have regained a little vigor under the French regime; the ardent youth sigh for a national life; but to break utterly with the past, to be born again into a better state, great efforts are necessary; sacrifices of all kinds must put new strength into the Italian character. An Italian war would be a sure pledge that we are going to become a nation, that we are going to rise from the mud in which we have floundered for so many centuries.27 Some years... - Page 12

Publishers are issuing, under this title, the lives of eminent Statesmen of Continental Europe, corresponding in form and size, and similar in scope, to the series which, under the name " Twelve English Statesmen," was confined to the British Islands. - Page 223

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La giovinezza del Conte di Cavour: Saggi storici secondo lettere e documenti ... Cavour. London: Macmillan,1928. Syracuse University, Florence, 2005. ...
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Camillo Benso di Cavour, cattolici e riformatori "tra. regalismo e liberalismo" ... Il viaggio a Parigi ed a Londra di Camillo di Cavour ...
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Turin - Page 211
Garibaldi had come to Turin in a fit of intense anger at the treatment of his old comrades, and on rising to defend them he soon lost control over ...
more pages: 19 39 46 61 93 111 131 137 148 207
Modena - Page 113
The object nearest his heart was the union or rather reunion of Parma and Modena with Piedmont, to which those duchies had annexed themselves ...
more pages: 154 155 159
Naples - Page 176
Save for the undoubted fact that Sicily was already separated in spirit not only from the Bourbon crown but from any rule which had its seat at Naples ...
more pages: 151 161 175 177 181 185 189 194 195 196
Alessandria - Page 86
a monstrous proposal on the part of Austria to occupy Alessandria, in order, in any case, to prevent Piedmont from attacking her during the war. ...
more pages: 69
Bologna - Page 155
seized with a warm interest in the unattractive despotism of the Duke of Modena, or the chronic anarchy kept down by Austrian bayonets at Bologna. ...
more pages: 105 154 158 164 169
Milan - Page 149
At Milan, after the victory of Magenta had opened its gates, the most permanent enthusiasm gathered round the short, stout, undistinguished figure in ...
more pages: 35 47 48 49 83 126 155 180
Perugia - Page 192
Meanwhile Fanti advanced on Perugia, and was on the point of entering Viterbo when a detachment from the French garrison in Rome suddenly occupied the ...
more pages: 154
Rome - Page 58
The reason that Rome refused to treat was that she thought herself strong and Sardinia weak. Writers on this period have too readily.
more pages: 86 114 122 143 164 189 192 195 207 210
Genoa - Page 181
France joined in the protests of the other Powers, and Cavour's enemies spread a monstrous rumour that he was going to give up Genoa to win Napoleon's ...
more pages: 92 123 149
Venice - Page 85
ray of hope that had gladdened his eyes since he left Venice, and Poerio, when he heard of the alliance in his dungeon, "felt his chain grow lighter. ...
more pages: vi 154 193 201
Paris - Page 145
He wrote to Napoleon that they would be driven to some desperate act, which was answered by a call to Paris ; but his interviews with the Emperor only ...
more pages: 5 22 28 66 85 93 110 111 129 169
Florence - Page 210
Cavour had no such intention, nor would he have agreed to the transference of the capital to Florence. His plan was warmly supported by Prince ...
more pages: 74 152 154 169
Palermo - Page 182
A dualism began between Palermo and Turin, which would not have reached the point that it did reach, if La Farina, who was commissioned by Cavour to ...
more pages: 181
Vienna - Page 50
Confidence in the ultimate result reached the point of madness, but with revolution stalking through the streets of Vienna the Austrian eagle seemed ...
more pages: 35 66 83 114 134
Warsaw - Page 193
The Emperor of Austria was badly received by the people of Warsaw, and this tended against the alliance. The Prince Regent of Prussia, who travelled ...
Berlin - Page 201
He turned off the furious remonstrances which came like the burden of a song from Berlin, with the polite remark that the Prussian.
more pages: 156
Salerno - Page 120
expedition of Pisacane to Sapri, was captured by the Neapolitan Government, and the crew, two of whom were English, were taken in chains to Salerno. ...
Stafford - Page 172
ready to take the tremendous leap in the dark which, among other consequences, must have condemned Cavour, if not to the fate of Stafford, at least.
Windsor - Page 94
He carried away a curious souvenir of his visit to Windsor. When Victor Emmanuel was made Knight of the Garter, the Queen wished that he should know ...
London - Page 93
Victor Emmanuel's visit to the courts of Paris and London was not without political significance. Cavour first intended that only D'Azeglio should ...
more pages: 109 124
Messina - Page 183
The influence of the king was sought by Napoleon to induce Garibaldi to stop short at Messina, but he can hardly have been surprised when the General ...
Tunis - Page 170
Such an assurance amounts, of course, to saying, "Go and take it," as in the more recent case of Tunis. The story is not impossible ; like Cavour, ...
Marseilles - Page 191
The French Ministry telegraphed to Napoleon, who was at Marseilles, to ask what they were to do. They got no answer, and, left to their own ...
Cambridge - Page 28
With Nassau Senior he began a long friendship, and Edward Romilly, the librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, whom he had met at Geneva, ...
Taranto - Page vi
which has doubled its population and halved its death-rate, which sends out great battle-ships from Venice and Spezia, Castellamare and Taranto. ...
Montevideo - Page 121
Cavour was one of Garibaldi's earliest admirers ; he applauded his exploits at Montevideo and at Rome, when the old Piedmontese party tried to ...