This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...Lombardy and their lost prestige. Rossi continued the diplomatic work of his predecessor with great apparent vigour, yet a consideration of all the attendant circumstances raises considerable doubt as to his sincerity, and points to the probability that his real desire was that the negotiations should not come to a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...Lombardy and their lost prestige. Rossi continued the diplomatic work of his predecessor with great apparent vigour, yet a consideration of all the attendant circumstances raises considerable doubt as to his sincerity, and points to the probability that his real desire was that the negotiations should not come to a successful issue. For what were the circumstances as they must have presented themselves to Rossi's dispassionate intellect? Sardinia's army had been crushed and demoralized, --Ferdinand of Naples was earning his well-known surname of Bomba, and infamously smearing the pages of the constitution he had granted with the blood of men, women, and children whom their evil fortune had placed under the rule of the Bourbons,1--in Tuscany and the 1 These expressions are strong, yet less so than those used by the English statesman Gladstone to stigmatize the abominable rule of Ferdinand II. He described the Government of Naples as "the negation of God erected into a system of government."--Gladstone, Two Letters, 9. Papal States there was a popular clamour for war, but it proceeded from a quarter which the Government could only view with more anxiety than favour; "Viva Carlo Alberto" was no longer the war cry, but "Dio e il Popolo." No head was cooler or keener to gauge the political possibilities of such a situation than that of the Pope's Minister. Success for Sardinia appeared impossible, peace and economy for the Pontifical State imperative. But it was not easy for Rossi to openly oppose public opinion by breaking off the negotiations; he therefore determined to arrive at a similar result by deftly directing them towards breakers on which they must wreck.1 It must be said, however, that this view was not taken by Rossi's co...
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