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Updated: June 23, 2025
His first step was to take post at Quingentolo, by which motion he secured Mirandola, that was threatened with a siege. On the fifteenth of February he forded the river Secchia, and surprised the quarters of mareschal de Broglio, who escaped in his shirt with great difficulty.
Although the great scene of the controversy was France, the question had been expressly raised by an Italian, no less a person than Alessandro Tassoni, the accomplished author of that famous ironical poem, "La Secchia rapita," which caricatured the epic poets of his day.
Battle lost by the Kaiser's people, after eight hours, hot fighting; who are then obliged to hurry across the Secchia again; and in fact do not succeed in fighting any more in that quarter, this year or afterwards.
I accompanied M. de Voltaire to his bedroom, where he changed his wig and put on another cap, for he always wore one on account of the rheumatism to which he was subject. I saw on the table the Summa of St. Thomas, and among other Italian poets the 'Secchia Rapita' of Tassoni. "This," said Voltaire, "is the only tragicomic poem which Italy has.
A son of this one's, a third Marechal Broglio, present at the Secchia that bad night, is the famous War-god of the Bastille time, fifty-five years hence, unfortunate old War-god, the Titans being all up about him. As to Broglio with the one boot, it is but a triumph over him till "SEPTEMBER 19th. Battle of Guastalla, that day.
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