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Duke Filippo Lante Montefeltro, Colonel in command of a corps d' armée of the Roman Volunteers, occupied and held Treviso, whereby he at once assured the retreat of the Roman army, after its defeat at Cornuda on the 9th of May, 1848, by General Nugent, and prevented the advance of the Austrians upon Venice.
Whenever you pay Pen and his wife the visit you are pledged to, * it will go hard but you spend five hours in a journey to Asolo. The one thing I am disappointed in is to find that the silk-cultivation with all the pretty girls who were engaged in it are transported to Cornuda and other places, nearer the railway, I suppose: and to this may be attributed the decrease in the number of inhabitants.
. . . Fortunately there is little changed here: my old Albergo, ruinous with earthquake is down and done with but few novelties are observable except the regrettable one that the silk industry has been transported elsewhere to Cornuda and other places nearer the main railway. No more Pippas at least of the silk-winding sort! 'But the pretty type is far from extinct.
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