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Title: Cavour
Author: Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Release Date: June 11, 2004 [eBook #12588]
Language: English
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CAVOUR
BY
THE COUNTESS EVELYN MARTINENGO-CESARESCO
1898



_Italia, ab exteris liberanda_.
Motto of Pope JULIUS II.


PREFACE
'Je suis italien avant tout et c'est pour faire jouir a mon
pays du _self government_ a l'interieur, come a l'extereur que
j'ai entrepuis la rude tache de chasser l'Autriche de l'Italie
sans y substituer la domination d'aucune autre Puissance'--_Cavour
to the Marquis Emmanuel d'Azeglio (May 8, 1860)_

The day is passed when the warmest admirer of the eminent man whose
character is sketched in the following pages would think it needful
to affirm that he alone regenerated his country.
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