Author: Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780364613221

Excerpt from A Decade of Italian Women, Vol. 1 of 2 Of such times, the most striking in this respect, as in so many others, is that fascinating dawn time of modern life, that ever wonderful renaissance season, when a fresh sap seemed to rush through the tissues of the European social systems, as they passed from their long winter into spring. And in the old mother land of European civilisation, where the new life was first and most vehemently felt, - in Italy, the most remarkable constellations of these attractive figures were produced. The women of Italy, at that period remarkable in different walks, and rich in various high gifts, form in truth a very notable phenomenon; and one sufficiently prevalent to justify the belief, that the general circum stances of that society favoured the production of such. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.