Author: George Macaulay Trevelyan

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780483690837

Excerpt from Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic Across the fifteen miles that lie between the roofs of the capital and this great semi-circle of sacred hills, rolls sea-like the Campagna in waves of bare, open country. Over it, from the day when the Consul Aulus led out his host to the Porcian height yonder, to the day when Italy entered Rome under Victor Emmanuel, the armies of many nations, in many ages, for many causes, have come and gone, and each could have been seen Slowly crawling over the vast plain. In the solemn hush of the distance on which we gaze, through the clear morning air, it seems as if that semi-circle of mountains were the seats of a Greek theatre whereon some audience Of patient gods were watching an endless play, as if Rome were the stage on which their looks were centred from the distant hills to north and east and south, while behind, in the west, meet sea and Sky, a background before which the Short-lived actors move. It was in this, the greatest theatre in the world, the Eternal City, 'sul teatro delle maggiori grandezze del mondo, nell' Urbe, ' as Garibaldi called that the most significant and moving scene of the Risorgimento was played out. See Clough's Amour: de Voyage, end of Canto I, written during the Siege. Mem. 223. 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.