Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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But, like everything he wrote, it breathesthat deep sympathy for the sorrows of humanity, and indignation againstits oppressors, which make it worthy of his name. NOTE ON HELLAS, BY MRS. SHELLEY. The South of Europe was in a state of great political excitement at thebeginning of the year 1821. The Spanish Revolution had been a signal toItaly; secrete societies were formed; and, when Naples rose to declarethe Constitution, the call was responded to from Brundusium to the footof the Alps. To crus...h these attempts to obtain liberty, early in 1821the Austrians poured their armies into the Peninsula: at first theircoming rather seemed to add energy and resolution to a people longenslaved. The Piedmontese asserted their freedom; Genoa threw off theyoke of the King of Sardinia; and, as if in playful imitation, thepeople of the little state of Massa and Carrara gave the conge to theirsovereign, and set up a republic. Tuscany alone was perfectly tranquil. It was said that the Austrianminister presented a list of sixty Carbonari to the Grand Duke, urgingtheir imprisonment; and the Grand Duke replied, 'I do not know whetherthese sixty men are Carbonari, but I know, if I imprison them, I shalldirectly have sixty thousand start up.
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