This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...for Austria, she alienated it. In the course of her life she had thrice become a widow, and had contracted a couple of bizarre marriages. After 1859, she left Milan and never returned, except for a short time many years after. One evening in January, at the Scala, an Austrian officer pushed contemptuously ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...for Austria, she alienated it. In the course of her life she had thrice become a widow, and had contracted a couple of bizarre marriages. After 1859, she left Milan and never returned, except for a short time many years after. One evening in January, at the Scala, an Austrian officer pushed contemptuously Gustavo Viola, a young friend of ours, whose mother, the Signora Saulina Viola Barbavara, was an intimate friend of the Contessa Maffei. He had returned home a few months previously, after having finished his studies in Germany. Viola warmly resented this act of discourtesy, and gave the officer his card. He chose as his seconds my brother Emilio and Enrico Besana, and the day following, a meeting of the seconds of both parties was held. They fixed upon a place for the duel, which was fought immediately; Viola received a blow of a saber on his arm. The duels proceeded always in the most perfect form; but no proposals of accommodation were ever accepted by our young men, no matter how futile the cause for the encounter might be. After the duels the greatest courtesy was observed, but, in taking leave, we were accustomed to say: "Here our relationship ends; from this moment we know one another no longer, we salute one another no more." The officers were wont to be surprised at the chasm which lay between them and us. During these affairs it was our duty to show ourselves expert in the use of arms, and never to become excited when brought face to face with officers who had their own ways of proceeding, and wanted to make them prevail. Therefore we circulated among ourselves an authoritive French code, in which all sorts of cases were resolved with indisputable precision. The duels, as I have observed, were regarded as combats of individuals that...
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Several spots on backstrip; foxing at inside margin of frontispiece; pages lightly edge-browned; otherwise very good condition. 462p. Frontispiece with tissue guard.
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Near Fine/No Jacket. 463 pages, index, source notes, frontis. portrait. A very nice copy, hardcover in green cloth with gilt decor, with gilt top edge, showing only light wear at extremities, otherwise bright, solid and entirely clean. As one of the three great leaders of the Italian Risorgimento, Venosta's memoirs represent the aristocratic attitude among the patriotic Italians, and gives a personal and vivid account of Italian life during an important period of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the Italian by William Prall, with an introduction by William Roscoe Thayer.
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Very Good. Book Indexed. "A" red pencil on fr endpaper. Back hinge cracked. Some pagespoorly opened. Intro by William R. Thayer photo portrait frontispiece. very good, no dj, gold-stamped green cloth, gilt top 463 pgs.
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