The Makers of Modern Italy Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi Three Lectures Delivered
The Makers of Modern Italy Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi Three Lectures Delivered
J a R John Arthur Ransome Marriott
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The provinces or at least Savoy were in all essentials French; they assented by plebiscite to the change of masters ; Savoy could contribute little to the resources of the new kingdom, and its conduct on more than one occasion had almost justified Cavour's assertion that it was the Ireland of Italy. In the chambers, too, Cavour's majority was unbroken, the treaty being ratified by a majority of 229, more than four-fifths of the whole chamber. But there was one man in Italy to whom the cession c...ame as an overpowering blow, the man who by his brilliant achievement in South Italy was just about to rivet upon himself the attention of the world I mean Garibaldi. " You have made me, " he cried, " a stranger in the land of my birth. " Garibaldi, whose career up to this point I must now very briefly trace, was born at Nice in 1807, being, there- fore, two years the junior of Mazzini, and three years older than Cavour. He was destined by his parents, humble but worthy folk, for the priesthood.
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