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Events which in the meantime had convulsed Italy took Lucretia back to Rome, she having spent but a single year in Pesaro. Pesaro, 1771. Regarding Collenuccio see the works of his compatriot Giulio Perticari, Opp. Bologna, 1837. Vol. ii, 52 sqq. Early in September, 1494, Charles VIII marched into Piedmont, and the affairs of all Italy suffered an immediate change.
It is said that in 1792 some two or three million pounds of short-staple cotton was gathered in the Piedmont, perhaps in anticipation of a practicable gin, and that the state of Georgia had appointed a commission to promote the desired invention.
In 1831, on the death of Charles Felix, the throne of Piedmont or, rather, Sardinia, as it was called when in 1720 the large island of that name was combined with the principality of Piedmont and other territories to form a kingdom was ascended by Charles Albert, of the younger branch of the House of Savoy.
The unexpected intelligence was received by Cromwell with a coldness which betrayed his disappointment. But though tranquillity was restored in Piedmont, Cromwell was still unwilling to conclude the treaty till he had ascertained what impression had been made on the king of Spain by the late attempt on Hispaniola.
One of Arnaud's men having captured a courier carrying despatches for the King of France, Palavicini, commander-in-chief of the troops of Piedmont, was ordered to bring Arnaud with him into the presence of Amadeus.
France submissive, Europe silent and resigned, accepting without a murmur the encroachments of his ambition such were for him the conditions of peace; England could not accept them. With Piedmont and the island of Elba annexed to France, Holland and Switzerland subdued, and the Duchy of Parma occupied, England had eluded the agreements relative to the island of Malta.
Late one night, on going to my room in the Paris, I found a welcome telegram from Bindo, dated from Milan, ordering me to meet him with the car at the Hotel Umberto, in Cuneo, on the following day. Now, Cuneo lay over the Italian frontier, in Piedmont, half-way between Monte Carlo and Turin.
Yet the power of the Clerical party in Piedmont was still such that, in the elections of 1857 the first that had taken place since the legislation affecting the Church they obtained seventy seats out of a total of two hundred. Cavour did not conceal his alarm. What if eight years' labour were thrown away, and the movement of the State turned backward?
A wise, far-seeing and benevolent priest, named Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti, born at Sinigaglia, and now a cardinal, with the title of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, will succeed to the Papal See, and Italy will be a republic; Genoa, Venice, Naples, Lombardy, Piedmont and Sardinia will be sister yet sovereign states, forming one union the constellation of freedom, the favorite scheme of Napoleon's better days at last achieving reality.
An Austrian army entered Naples in March, 1821, overthrew the constitutional government that had been inaugurated, and restored Ferdinand II to absolute power. The revolution which had broken out in Piedmont was also suppressed by a detachment of the Austrian army.
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