"The Liberation of Italy, 1815-1870" by Contessa Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco offers a captivating historical narrative. As an eminent Italian historian, Martinengo-Cesaresco meticulously explores th……続きを見る
IN one of these enigmatic sayings which launch the mind on boundless seas, Cardinal Newman remarked that we know less of animals than of angels. A large part of the human race explains the mystery b……続きを見る
The unity of Italy, which the statesmen of Europe and all save a small number of the Italians themselves still regarded as an utopia when it was on the verge of accomplishment, was, nevertheless, de……続きを見る
It is on record that Wilhelm Mannhardt, the eminent writer on mythology and folk-lore, was once taken for a gnome by a peasant he had been questioning. His personal appearance may have helped the il……続きを見る
Nothing is permanent but change; only it ought to be remembered that change itself is of the nature of an evolution, not of a catastrophe. Commonly this is not remembered, and we seem to go forward ……続きを見る
