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Excerpt from The Story of the Nations
Italy has long been an inexhaustible treasury of art and literature for the English-speaking race; ought not then her political annals for the last hundred years to give her an even nobler and more strenuous claim on the anglo-saxon mind, with its keen bent for practical politics and unswerving devotion to constitutional freedom. Indeed, interest in Italian affairs may be said, at least, to have been a tradition in our literature during the last half century aroused long ago by Mr. Gladstone's eloquent protest against the Bourbon regime in N aples - in his two famous Letters to ?ee Earl of Aberdeen - and kept alive in the impassioned verse of Mrs. Browning, it has, of late years, been stimulated by the fascinating mono graphs Of Madame Martinengo Cesaresco and Mr.
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