Cavour and the Making of Modern Italy 1810-1861

ISBN: 9781330590782 出版年：2018 页码：528 Pietro Orsi Forgotten Books

It is true that from Shakespeare's time to Byron's Italy seemed to be~dead. The foreigner who visit ed the peninsula was able to neglect its people, and to devote his attention solely to its monuments of art and archaeology, and to the beauty of its scenery. The Italian people seemed dead, but it was only in a state of lethargy, and when it awoke it once more accomplished feats that are worthy of Roman valour. So there came again, in Italy's history, a glorious epoch — the one that we Speak of as her Revival (risorgimento). It was a real revolution, truly noble in the high ideals that inspired it, in the heroic deeds that were achieved, and in the magnanimous conduct of the Italian people, which knew how to attain its purpose Without disgracing itself by unworthy violence.