Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution, in a Series of Letters from Florence
Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution, in a Series of Letters from Florence
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GBPHaving married and settled in Florence in the 1840s, the poet and translator Theodosia Trollope (1816–65) found herself well placed to chronicle the events which contributed to the unification of Italy. While another Englishwoman in Italy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, would become better known for her verse, Trollope nevertheless firmly established herself in the liberal and literary circles of Florentine society, allowing her to witness at first hand, and explore in prose, the effects that the Risorgimento was having on those living through it. Vividly capturing the unfolding situation in Tuscany, twenty-seven letters first appeared in The Athenaeum in 1859–60. They were published together in this work of 1861, along with an update on the months that had elapsed since the last letter was written in April 1860. Championing the cause of unification, Trollope's writing helped to generate enthusiasm in Britain for the progress and personalities of the Risorgimento.
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January 2014Paperback
9781108066181
328 pages
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The fall of a dynasty
- 2. Ominous predictions
- 3. A feast-day in mourning
- 4. A military-religious pageant
- 5. Echoes of Solferino
- 6. Peace no blessing
- 7. White there's life there's hope
- 8. A hint for Congress
- 9. Another step forward
- 10. A Tuscan parliament
- 11. Two pictures
- 12. Another rung of the ladder
- 13. Uncanny prospects for the cause
- 14. The feast of St Francis
- 15. An arrival from Venice
- 16. Tuscany in swaddling-clothes
- 17. Mars and Terpsichore
- 18. Italian evangelical church
- 19. Christmas bell-chimes and dainties
- 20. The thanksgiving service
- 21. What the Codini said
- 22. Three bright days
- 23. A theatre new baptized
- 24. Universal suffrage
- 25. A new dynasty
- 26. The art exhibition
- 27. The bridegroom's coming
- A sketch of subsequent events.
