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A SHORT HISTORY OF ITALY
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A SHORT HISTORY OF ITALY
(476-1900)
BY
HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
COPYRIGHT 1905 BY HENRY DWIGHT SEDGWICK
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published November 1905
TO
H. D. S., C. D. S., R. M. S., W. E. S.,
A. C. S., F. M. S., and T. S.
O passi graviora ...
... forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit.
PREFACE
This volume is a mere sketch in outline; it makes no pretence tooriginal investigation, or even to an extended examination of thevoluminous literature which deals with every part of its subject. It isan attempt to give a correct impression of Italian history as a whole,and employs details only here and there, and then merely for the sake ofgiving greater clearness to the general outline. So brief a narrative ismainly a work of selection; and perhaps no two persons would agree uponwhat to put in and what to leave out. I have laid emphasis upon thematters of greatest general interest, the Papacy, the Renaissance, andthe Risorgimento; and my special object has been to put in high reliefthose achievements which make Italy so charming and so interesting tothe world, and to give what space was possible to the great men to whomthese achievements are due.
H. D. S.
New York, October 1, 1905.
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