Bomba, King : Ferdinand II, Bourbon king of Naples (1830-59), called “Bomba” on account of his bombardment of Messina in 1848.
... we should like to know what on earth our universal critic means by his Italian republics? There were republics in mediaeval Italy, but we did not know that Naples and Sicily were republics under King Bomba, or Rome under the Popes, or Tuscany under the Grand Duke, or Lombardy under the Austrians, or Sardinia and Piedmont under the descendants of Victor Amadeus. Then again Mr. Ghose has "observed" that ...
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