Giuseppe Garibaldi
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 88
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... calling on the brave sons of Etna to rise, in hopes of prompt succour from the mainland of Italy. Two men, and no more, they landed, proscribed and under sentence of death, and passed over the whole island, fulfilling their sacred mission, as safe as if they had been in a city of refuge. Hear it, tyrants, and learn that this is not a country of spies! You have wasted your time in lavishing eveiy kind of bribe. Here on the lava of the father of volcanoes, your power, defiled as it is with blood and shame, is but the thing of a day. Throw off your regulation mask, in which no one believes now, and appear under the hideous aspect of Heliogabalus or Caracalla. Here it is nothing but a question of time--of years, perhaps of days. If these wrangling descendants of discord and greatness succeed in coming to an understanding and acting in concert, in a few hours--as at the time of the Vespers--not a trace will remain of the Maniscalchi and suchlike refuse. Eosalino Pilo fell in a skirmish with the Bourbon troops, with whom the Thousand exchanged a few shots in the neighbourhood of Eenne. He was struck by an enemy's bullet while preparing to write to me from the heights of San Martino, and dropped dead. Italy lost in him one of the bravest of that gallant band whose noble bearing makes her forget, or at least feel less acutely, her degradation and misery. Corrao, less fortunate than Eosalino, after having fought bravely in every battle of 1860, died by an Italian bullet in a private quarrel. Sicily will certainly never forget these two heroic sons of hers, worthy harbingers of the Thousand. CHAPTER VII. CALATAFIMI TO PALERMO--Continued. After having passed two days of heavy rain at Eenne, without shelter and almost without firewood, so that we...