Identifier: garibaldisdefenc00trev (find matches)
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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nd the attachment of a smallband of servants of the House of Savoy, as Liberal as theWhigs of the Reform Bill, but as loyal as any Swiss guard.He saved Piedmont from conquest, partly through theassistance of very serious threats made by France againstAustria, partly by consenting to abandon for the time theDemocratic parties in the rest of Italy. Austria insisted,as a matter of course, that he should leave Venice to itsfate by the withdrawal of his fleet from the Adriatic—anact of necessity which the Republicans throughout thePeninsula factiously charged against him as a crime. Butthere was one thing which he would not surrender, and thatwas the Constitution granted by his father to Piedmont.All the tempting offers made by Radetzky to induce him to modify the great charter, which was destined to becomethe law of the kingdom of united Italy, were met by hisstaunch refusal, now celebrated in Italian popular art,which loves to depict the young and spirited king turning Delia Rocca, 28.
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GIUSEPPF. MAZZINI.From a P<»ti:iil by Madame Vcn/iiri about 1817 MAZZINI TRIUMVIR 97 away in indignation (rom the offers of the white-hairedenemy of freedom. The news that Piedmont was once more laid low reachedRome at the end of March. Although it had been neces-sary to keep the Garibaldians on the Neapolitan border,a few Roman troops had been sent towards the seat ofwar, but had not arrived in time to share in the disaster.The first result of Novara was that the Roman Assemblyproclaimed a dictatorship of Mazzini, Saffi, and Armellini,under the title of Triumvirs, with full executive power.Mazzini, however, directed the policy of his two colleaguesas absolutely as the First Consul Bonaparte had directedthe policy of Sieyes and Ducos. But his was the domina-tion, not of supreme efficiency and egoism, but of an almostsuperhuman virtue, of an other-worldliness which longyears of suffering and self-surrender had suffused throughhis being, so that those who looked on him and heard his

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