Piedmont : a major battlefield in the Italian Wars (16th cent.), the wars of Louis XIV, & the French Revolutionary Wars. The dukes of Savoy, who in 1720 became kings of Sardinia, acquired all of present Piedmont by 1748. From 1798 to 1814 Piedmont was annexed to France. After its restoration to the kingdom of Sardinia it was the nucleus of Italian unification during the Risorgimento.
... detail and will inevitably follow. For the first condition the requisite is a mighty selfless faith and aspiration filling the hearts of men as in the day of Mazzini. For the second India, which has no Piedmont to work out her salvation, requires to organize her scattered strengths into a single and irresistible whole. For both these ends an institution of the kind we have named is essential. The ...
... 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 the different States of Greece developed a national unity as soon as they had a common enemy in the Persian. Really ...
... first and republicanism afterwards forms his Legion of Red Shirts and holds the balance of parties, a Cavour full of grandiose schemes of a Kingdom of Italy leads the old monarchical sentiment of Piedmont and all that gathers round it. These parties fear and distrust each other, but all have one clear and unmistakable purpose, the freedom of Italy, and work for it, each doing something towards the ...
... comparable to any there in rhythmic strength is also in a Sonnet of 1652: And rumours loud that daunt remotest kings. 22 About the sonnet of white rage, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont (1655), three years before the commencement of Paradise Lost, Douglas Bush 23 well observes that in spite of its especially arresting rhymes it is a structure of run-on lines and medial pauses ...
... and will inevitably follow. For the first condition the requisite is a mighty selfless faith and aspiration filling the hearts of men as in the day of Mazzini. For the second, India, which has no Piedmont to work out her salvation, requires to organise her scattered strengths into a single and irresistible whole...." — "The Need of the Moment", Bande Matarcm The above extract from ...
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