"The most important problems of European politics have been largely connected with Italy, ever since the northern tribes found their way across the Alps to its fertility and sunshine. The early developments of its fire-and-sword wrought civilization belong to archaeology and ancient history, but there is... one phase of the struggle for the domination of Italy which has a peculiar interest for the English reader. It is that in which the British power, having led the forces of Europe to the overthrow of Napoleon, began to repair the ravage his conquests and invasions had wrought, by the promotion of that constitutional liberty which the imperial experience of British statesmen had found to be the only barrier against similar convulsions. For though Napoleon had left the field of action, all the moral and material forces which he had so long and successfully employed were still ready to the hand of another possible master. The Revolution, which had prepared them for him, had entered into the blood of Europe, and especially into that of Italy, where his action had been most thorough." - W.J. Stillman
Contents: Vittorio Emmanuele I. The Rising of 1821. Carlo Felice and the Repression. The Succession of Carlo Alberto and the Revival. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1815-1847. Naples. Sicily. Northern and Central Italy, 1815-1847. Lombardy and Venetia. Parma, Modena and Tuscany. The Papal States. The Literary Forerunners of the Italian Revival: Gioberti, Cesare Balbo and Massimo D'Azeglio. Northern Italy, 1847-1848. Piedmont and Austria. The Five Days in Milan. Venice. The War with Austria, 1848-1849. Goito, Santa Lucia, and Curtatone. Diplomacy. Custozza. The Armistice. Novara. Lombardy and Venice. Central Italy, 1847-1849. Tuscany. Parma and Modena. Rome. Southern Italy, 1847-1849. Naples. Sicily. Northern Italy, 1849-1858. Vittorio Emanuele. Cavour. The Crimean War. Lombardy and Venice. The War of 1859 and its Results. Magenta and Solferino. Villafranca. The Annexation of Central Italy. The Conquest of Sicily and Naples. The Completion of Italy, 1861-1870. Aspromonte. The War of 1866. Mentana. The Roman Question. The Occupation of Rome. Parliamentary Italy, 1871-1895. The Right in Power, 1871-76. The Monarchical Left, 1876-1886. Disorganization.
Contents: Vittorio Emmanuele I. The Rising of 1821. Carlo Felice and the Repression. The Succession of Carlo Alberto and the Revival. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1815-1847. Naples. Sicily. Northern and Central Italy, 1815-1847. Lombardy and Venetia. Parma, Modena and Tuscany. The Papal States. The Literary Forerunners of the Italian Revival: Gioberti, Cesare Balbo and Massimo D'Azeglio. Northern Italy, 1847-1848. Piedmont and Austria. The Five Days in Milan. Venice. The War with Austria, 1848-1849. Goito, Santa Lucia, and Curtatone. Diplomacy. Custozza. The Armistice. Novara. Lombardy and Venice. Central Italy, 1847-1849. Tuscany. Parma and Modena. Rome. Southern Italy, 1847-1849. Naples. Sicily. Northern Italy, 1849-1858. Vittorio Emanuele. Cavour. The Crimean War. Lombardy and Venice. The War of 1859 and its Results. Magenta and Solferino. Villafranca. The Annexation of Central Italy. The Conquest of Sicily and Naples. The Completion of Italy, 1861-1870. Aspromonte. The War of 1866. Mentana. The Roman Question. The Occupation of Rome. Parliamentary Italy, 1871-1895. The Right in Power, 1871-76. The Monarchical Left, 1876-1886. Disorganization.