Author : Pietro Orsi
Release : 2015-06-26
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy 1810-1861 by : Pietro Orsi
Download or read book Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy 1810-1861 written by Pietro Orsi. This book was released on 2015-06-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy 1810-1861 Italia, too! Italia! looking on thee. Full flashes on the Soul the light of ages, Since the fierce Carthaginian almost won thee, To the last halo of the Chiefs and Sages Who glorify thy consecrated pages. Thou wert the throne and grave of empires; still, The fount at which the panting Mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge, quaffing there her fill, Flows from the eternal source of Rome's imperial hill. Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III. No other country in the world can boast, as Italy can, that for more than two thousand years her history has been always fascinating, always full of glory and misfortune, of enthusiasm and passion. For in general those nations which, like Greece, played a glorious part in the ancient world, have never again enjoyed a period of equal fame, either in the Middle Ages or in modern times. Italy alone numbers many brilliant pages in each of the epochs into which the history of humanity is commonly divided. This explains why, in all the literature of the world, the references to the Italian peninsula are so frequent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.