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Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ng the best plan fornational organization. One party wanted a confederation of thevarious states; a second party wished to see Italy a constitutionalmonarchy with the king of Sardinia at its head; while still a third,known as Young Italy, wanted a republic. 621. Joseph Mazzini, the Patriot and Prophet. The leaderof the third or republican party was the patriot Joseph Mazzini.Mazzini was not a narrow nationalist. He recognized the uni-versal character of the democratic revolution. The people wereoppressed not only in Italy but in Spain, in Portugal, in Hungary,in Poland, in Russia, in Turkey,— almost everywhere, in truth.Their cause was a common cause. In opposition to the HolyAlliance of the princes formed with aim to oppress, there must bea Holy Alliance of the peoples formed with aim to emancipate.The French Revolution, he said, had proclaimed the liberty,equality, and fraternity of individual men; the new revolutionshould proclaim the liberty, equality, and fraternity of nations.
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§622) THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 543 In this great work of the emancipation and unification of theworld, Italy was to be head and guide of the nations. To herthis post of leadership was assigned by virtue of her leadershipin the past. Once pagan Rome organized and ruled the world.Then papal Rome organized and ruled it for a thousand years.Now a third world union was to be formed, and of this union ofthe free and federated nations Italy, Italy as a republic, wasto be center and head. The first Rome was the Rome of theCaesars; the second was the Rome ofthe Popes; the third was to be theRome of the Italian People. Such was Mazzinis interpretationof the drama of world history. Suchwas his splendid ideal. Throughkindling the enthusiasm of the Italianyouth, awakening the sentiment ofpatriotism, and keeping alive thespirit of insurrection Mazzini ren-dered a great service to the cause ofItalian liberation and union. 622. The Revolution of 1848-1849.After the suppression of the uprisingof 1830 u

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