Author: Count Cesare Balbo

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Published: 2015-07-19

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9781331816423

Excerpt from The Life and Times of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 1 of 2 The Life of Dante Alighieri, which is here translated from the Italian, was published by Count Cesare Balbo at Turin, in 1839. The Author is a Piedmontese, and in his youth served under Napoleon; he is a warm advocate for constitutional liberty, and published at Paris, in 1843, a book on the future prospects of Italy, entitled Delle Speranze d' Italia; it was dedicated to Vicenzio Gioberti, the great Opponent of the Jesuits, and acquired a considerable reputation. But Count Balbo has also taken an active part in the politics of his country, and was Prime Minister to Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, during the time that Italy, and indeed almost all Europe, were convulsed by revolutions. He resigned office in July, 1848. 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.