unionists-at-all-costs

Updated: May 11, 2025

When Ricasoli took office he and the republican baker, Dolfi, who was his invaluable auxiliary, were possibly the only two thorough-going unionists-at-all-costs in Tuscany; when he resigned it twelve months later there was not a partisan of autonomy left in the province. This was the work of the "Iron Baron."

Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco - Cavour