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. 1891 Excerpt: ...the absolutist system of Government in Russia, she quitted that country in 1835. She spent five years in Belgium and Switzerland, carefully studying the customs and laws, and, having made a tour through Greece, she went to Italy in 1861. At this period Garibaldi addressed to her a letter, requesting her to exert hor ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...the absolutist system of Government in Russia, she quitted that country in 1835. She spent five years in Belgium and Switzerland, carefully studying the customs and laws, and, having made a tour through Greece, she went to Italy in 1861. At this period Garibaldi addressed to her a letter, requesting her to exert hor influence over the Roumanians, to induce them to rise in rebellion against Austria. The Prin'cess, who resides in Florence, is said to be thoroughly acquainted with the Italian, German, French, Roumanian, Greek, Latin, Russian, and Albanian languages, has written much on the essential and vital questions affecting the political and social future of the Greeks, the Albanians, and the Slavs of Northern Europe. She is an enthusiastic advocate of "Women's Rights," and an indefatigable champion of oppressed nationalities. Since 1850 she has been a contributor to the Revue des Deux Mondes; and she has written many articles in the French, Belgian, Greek, German, Italian, English and American journals. Among her works are: "La Vie Monastique dans l'Eglise Orientale," Brussels, 1855; 2nd edit., Paris and Geneva, 1858; "La Suisse Allemande et l'Ascension du Mbnch," 4 vols., Paris and Geneva, 1856, translated into English and German; " Les Feinmes en Orient," 2 vols., Zurich, 1858; "Excursions en Roumelie et en Moree,"2 vols., Zurich, 1863; "Des Femmes, par une Femme," 2 vols., Paris and Brussels, 1865; "La Nazionalita Albanese secondo i canti popolare," Cosenza, 186"; "Discours Bur Marco Polo," Trieste, 1869; "Venise en 1867," Leipzig, 1870; "Gli Albanesi in Rumenia," a history of the Princesses Ghika in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth cent...
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Good. No Jacket. Corners bumped and covers are a little rubbed and faded w/ minor fraying to top of spine and small split to top of rear joint-Page edges lightly toned & foxed-rear hige breached but not open-Previous owner's name and address in ink on front free endpaper and anothe name and date in ink on title page-Minor foxing throughout-Some very minor pen annotations to margins-Book ow/ solid and clean-1016 pages.
