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«O» The Vicissitudes Of Italy, Since The...
fifteen yearsand a sure road for Austria * to possess _herself of all Italy , * # , _# _# # * *
" The antecedents of 1820-21 caused public _ojrinion to be divided as to the future policy of the new Sovereign . As if to solve the uncertainty
Mazzini , an advocate of the city of Grenoa , took the first step in the _course , which was eventually to prove so disastrous to his countrymen;—he
adliberty dressed to a public Italy , letter he was to the warned king , of in which irreparable ., while ruin calling should upon he him refuse to give or hesitate .
" Whether the future agitator really believed in the liberal inclinations method he attributed of rendering to Charles him unp Albert opular , or , , and certain of justify of refusal ing the , had work taken of consp a sure i-
ascertained racy and intri . Certain gue to which it isthat his the own tone life of was this to remarkable be dedicated document , can never thrust be sli upon ghtest a Court infraction notoriousl of respect y , jealous produced of old an observances effect that , and mig tenacious ht readil , of have the
been expected—independent , of the deeper considerations it involved y —by calling down a sentence of banishment as its reply . " Swift and sure came Mazzini's revenge . Uniting his exiled countrymen
in Giovine the secret Italia bond , i . e of ., a Young revolutionary Italy , soon society became , his name of terrible , as the founder import to of the the Italian princes . Aiming at the substitution of one republic for the several
of monarchies the police into , and which the penalties Italy was attached subdivided to their , and introduction baffling alike , the the vi tenets gilance of the new association were diffused and embraced with equal rapidity .
"Had prompt and well-organised insurrectionary movements followed this first fever of agitation , the result might have been formidable , perhaps most decisive imp ; ar but tial Mazzini of Italian , * fantastic writers and desi presumptuous gnates himseemed , ' as Ran bent alli , on one innova of the
tions , even in his method of consp , iring , and determined , to reverse the axiom hazar which d inculcates and importance a predominance . Journal of s deeds and p over amphlets words qui , in ckly enterprises followed of each such
other Marseilles to proclaim , to which to the all the worl secret d his doctrines committees , a , nd of various a council parts was of instituted Italy were at of subjected action ; it but was the impossible directing princi to unite ple being the scattered always absent elements from so that the scene they
should act , ; in concert with the impetus of one will , and carry out the pompous programme which Mazzini had put forth . " Hence the records of the Giovine Italia contain only a succession of
desperate and fool-hardy expeditions , ill-combined and precipitately carried blind fruitless out , — confidence invariab in teaching ly of leading his a lesson followers to the of wisdom in axe their , the to chief bullet their . ori , With or ginator the Mazzini dungeon , or in shaki to , — attempt and ng the yet
and to obtain would appear to have been synonymous . Wherever , an experibidding ment failed , undeterred , it was termed by the sowing fate of the their see _3 . predecessors s of future , successes ardent , sp and irits at were Ins
they never were wanting powerless to go to forth subvert and . offer themselves as victims to the op _£ > ression " While the best and bravest of his adherents were thus despatched to
of slaughter wonderful , Mazzini fertili never ty and ran resource any personal , plotting risk and . Indefati intriguing gable were , sanguine as the , ness very breath of banishment of his nostrils found , the its essential compensation s of his in existence the knowled . Even ge the that dreari he , a -
continual fugitive and apprehension proscribed , : — could his rare keep eloquence half the , crowned persuasive heads manners in Europe , irre in - his proachable theories , , almost added to severe the dignity morals , of the political mingled persecution grandeur , and gave mysticism him an ex of
him traordinary in fact no ascendancy _despicable over foe . the ' minds of his countrymen , and rendered
Notices Of Books. 4±I8
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 4 _± i 8
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/53/
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