Capitolo 1
THE ROMAN QUESTION
from
E. AROUND
Translated By French By H. C. Coape
New York:
D. Appleton and Society,
346 & 348 Broadway
1859
PREFACE
It was in States Papal that I studied the Roman Question. ME
travelled on every part of the country; I conversed with men of everybody
opinions, things examined a lot from nearby, and picked up my information
on the stain.
My first impressions, famous down from day to day without some special
you object, it appeared, with some necessary changes, in the _Moniteur
Universel_. These notes, truthful rather detached, and this way
entirely impartial, that would be to discover effortless in them
contradictions and discordances, I was forced for stopping, in
consequence of the violent cry of the Pontifical Government. I did
more. I threw them in the fire, and he/she wrote a book instead. The present
volume is the result of the one year-old reflection.
I completed my study of the subject from the perusal of the most recent
jobs published in Italy. Marquis Pepoli's learned monograph,
and the admirable replica of an anonymous writer to the de of M. Rayneval,
provides me with my best weapon. I have subsequently been illuminated from
the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians that
I would call gladly, it was not me afraid to show them to danger.
The pressing condition of Italy has forced me to write more quickly
what I would have been able to desire; and this strengthened the alacrity you/he/she has given a certain
air of heat, perhaps of the intemperance also to more attentively
overdue reflections. It was my intention to produce a memoir,--I fear
I can be debited with having written him a brochure. Forgive me certain
the vivacities of style that I didn't have time to correct, and dive
audaciously in the heart of the book. You will find there anything.
I fairly fight, and in good faith. I don't fake to have judged the
hostile of Italy without passion; but I have not slandered none of them.
If I have looked for a publisher in Brussels, while I had an excellent
to Paris, it is not, because I feel some alarm on the result of the