Excerpt from The Makers of Modern Italy: Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi; Three Lectures Delivered at Oxford Introductory. Scope and Plan of the Lectures. Makers of Modern Italy. The Poets. The Statesmen. The King. The condition of Italy, political and social, in 1815. Results of the Napoleonic occupation. Temporary unification. Its permanent effect. The territorial settlement effected by the Congress of Vienna. Its reactionary character. Austria dominant in Italy. The Bourbons. The Papacy. The House of Savoy. Their tortuous but successful diplomacy in the eighteenth century. Their position in 1815. Hopelessness of the present. Outlook for the future. Attempt of the Viennese diplomatists to set back the hands of the clock. Its futility. Social condition of Italy after the Restoration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.