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Title: Garibaldi's defence of the Roman Republic
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Subjects: Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 1807-1882 Rome (Italy) -- History Revolution, 1848-1849
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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upon their own time, if they did not actuallycreate, at least they ennobled and intensified, the liberalforces which it was given to one wiser and more cunningto wield. For there was already in the world, in 1817,another boy, a noblemans son, by name Camillo Cavour.The fourth of the great liberators, the man whom thesethree were between them to make King of Italy, was notyet born. So Keats prophesied, and shortly after died in Rome.And still, over the plains and mountain roads of Italy, theAustrians in their white coats and shakos moved unceasingly,on their fruitless, mechanical task of repression ; staredat with a vague but growing antipathy by the commonpeople, with horror by Shelley, and willi disgust by Byron ; ^ Byron to John Murray, Ravenna, February i6, 1821. As for news, theBarbarians arc marching on Naples, and if they lose a single battle, all Italy willbe up, . . . LetUrs opened I~\.q be sure Ihcy are, and thats the reason why I SWITZERLAND ITALY Spring 1848 and Autumn 1849
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THE BIRTH OF GARIBALDI 9 while the other army of invaders, the Enghsh milords,swelhng with the pride of Waterloo, each with his carriage,family, footman and Quarterly Review complete, lookedwith an indifferent contempt on Austrians and Italians,priests and patriots, and with hostile inquisitiveness at therebel poets of their own race and caste. In such a world,Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour grew up, each among hisfellows. Giuseppe Garibaldi was born at Nice, in a house by the seashore, on July 4, 1807, as a subject of the great Emperor.On Napoleons fall he became, as did Mazzini in Genoa,a subject of the restored royal house of Piedmont, whichafterwards condemned him to death for treason in 1834, wasobliged to hand over his native province to France in i860,and in the same year received Sicily and Naples at his hands.The inhabitants of Nice were in part French and in partItalian by race. But Garibaldis family was pure Italian,having come from Chiavari beyond Genoa, about thirtyyears b

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