Identifier: spellofitaly00maso (find matches)
Title: The spell of Italy
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Mason, Caroline Atwater, 1853-1939
Subjects: Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : L. C. Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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years after, Veniceshook herself free also. The most dramatic andpicturesque cowp was, naturally, given by Garibaldi,always the popular hero of the story. In the springof 1860 he landed with his famous Thousand atPalermo, conquered the Two Sicilies for his king, anddrove the Bourbon despot from the throne of Naples.On September 7th General Garibaldi, the Dictator ashe was called for a little space, entered Naples with-out troops, accompanied only by his staff. Althoughthe king had fled, his sentries still paced before allpubHc buildings, the barracks were full of his soldiers,and up above us, over yonder, Castel Sant* Elmobristled with cannon, their muzzles pointing downinto the town. When his carriage was driven downthe Toledo, through which we drove just now, Gari-baldi rose in his place as they passed under theenemys guns, stood wuth arms folded and gave theorder, Drive slower, slower still. What a lion heart! Garibaldi is my hero!cried FiHa, How should he not be every womans hero?
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GIUSKPPE GAKIBALDI. New Italy 35 returned Aztalos quietly. Read Trevelyans bookon his Defence of the Roman Republic if you want toreally know the man and the woman he worshipped. The Defence of the Roman Republic? I re-peated. Rome was a repubhc in ancient historyand for a little while under Rienzi, if my memoryserves me, but I did not know there had been aRepublic of Rome in recent times. If you please, Signora! We are coming to that.Rome was a repubhc from February to July in theyear 1849. We must go back for a moment to Vit-torio Emanuele, at whose feet crown after crown wasbeing cast. In February, 1861, the first Itahan ParHamentmet at Turin and constituted the Itahan kingdom.Vittorio Emanuele was declared king, with the succes-sion vested in his heirs. The title, King of Sardinia,became a thing of the past from that day. Ourcountry, said the king, * is no more the Italy of theRomans nor the Italy of the Middle Ages . . . hence-forth it becomes the Italy of the Italians. Perfectly

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