Englishmen and Italians

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Excerpt from Englishmen and Italians: Some Aspects of Their Relations Past and Present I propose this afternoon to analyse some of the causes of the close friendship existing between Italians and Englishmen sixty years ago. That friendship helped the creation of United Italy, and thereby led to the fortunate participation of the new State in the war of our own day. The Italian policy of Lord John Russell is a striking exception to the general failure or misdirection of our Foreign policy in the nine teenth century. That exceptional success was due to the fact that Italy was the only country in Europe or America about which we English in the middle of the nineteenth century were really well informed. Our ignorance both of the American Republic and of the Turkish Empire dictated our official attitude to those two States respectively at the time of the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and Disraeli's defence of the Turk. But during those very decades of darkened counsel our statesmen and our public had an intimate and personal knowledge of Italy answering in extent and closeness of sympathy to our knowledge of America to-day. And this knowledge was the reason why our Italian policy was so successful and so Wise, in an epoch when our other dealings with the outer world were a series of well-meant blunders. 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.