Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Union of Italy, 1815-1895
While English sentiment and policy always favoured that emancipation, those Of France have as constantly Operated for Italian subjection. In the duel over the Shaping of Italian institutions which began in 1815 and which has not yet been fought out, the maintenance Of good relations with Austria was indispensable to the success of England. In none Of the difficult problems which British statecraft has had to solve has greater mastery Of its difficulties been needed or shown, than in this, of baf?ing the constant efforts of France to reduce Italy to subjection, diplomatic or military, and Of keeping touch with Austria while urging the progressive liberation and constitutional evolution Of Italy. If in this work the statesmen Of England differed, and in differing more or less, approved or Opposed the methods of government of Austria, there is no ground for surprise. There was always before them the terrible lesson Of liberty carried to excess. For us, with the problem worked out before our eyes, it is easy to see what might have been, had statesmen possessed the gift of prescience. But the Italian proverb - Of the wisdom of yesterday, the ditches are full can never be better applied than here.
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