Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of Youth: Things Seen and Known, 1847-1860
Not all parts of history are of the same importance; and not all the annals and memoirs of a people are equally interesting. The parts that are of supreme importance are those that have reference to critical times, such as the making of a nation, the founding of a state, and the revolt from antiquated to newer ways of life. Not to attempt to discriminate between the rela tive importance of these times, surely there is no period in a people's life that is more attractive than that of the founding of a state, especially if that state be composed of parts which, previously, had been arbitrarily dis severed. It is this fact that makes a study of the found ing of the new Kingdom of Italy so pleasing, and has given rise to the many histories of the Risorgimento.
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