Italy From The Fall Of Napoleon I In 1815 To The Death Of Victor Emmanuel In 1878 To The Year 1890

Excerpt from Italy: From the Fall of Napolion I., In 1815, to the Death of Victor Emmanuel in 1878 The purpose of this volume is to give a concise account of the chief causes and events which have transformed Italy from a divided into a united country. Formerly the Italian Peninsula was separated into a number of petty States whose despotic rulers were maintained almost wholly by the power or influence of foreign sovereigns; today it forms a single constitutional monarchy, freed from external dictation and acknowledged by every civilised Government. The change is one of the most remarkable of modern times, and well deserves to be studied. 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.