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In the summer and autumn, 1797, Marquis de Gallo assisted at the conferences at Udine, and signed, with the Austrian plenipotentiaries, the Peace of Campo Formio, on the 17th of October, 1797. During 1798, 1799, and 1800 he resided as Neapolitan Ambassador at Vienna, and was again entrusted by his Sovereign with several important transactions with Austria and Russia.
I cannot let the Austrian plenipotentiaries wait any longer for my ultimatum." The Austrian plenipotentiaries were at the large Alberga of Udine, waiting for General Bonaparte.
On November 19, 1915, Austrian aviators threw fifteen bombs on Udine, Italy, killing twelve persons and wounding twenty-seven. The activity of the Italian aero service developed in the course of the war, and there were many combats between them and Austrian aviators.
On none of the European battle-fronts is there a more beautiful and impressive journey than that from Udine up to the Italian positions in the Carnia.
"In Siena there is some singular painting in the Municipal Chamber and in other places; in Florence, my native place, in the Palaces of the Medici, there is a grotesque by Giovanni da Udine, and so throughout Tuscany.
The door on the left at the end of the Loggia, must lead to the apartments of the Cardinal Secretary of State. The Loggia beyond the gateway was that of Giovanni da Udine; the great barred windows opening on to it were the windows of the Borgia apartment, and the entrance to the Gallery of Inscriptions must be precisely in the angle. On that former occasion a Swiss guard had stood by the gate.
I went to see him from Udine. He occupied a moderate-sized country villa about half an hour by automobile from headquarters.
Returning at nightfall from the front to Udine, we were nearly always stopped by officers majors, colonels, and once by a general who would ask us to give them a lift into town. It has long been the fashion among foreigners to think of Italians, particularly those of the upper class, as late-rising, easy-going, and not particularly in love with work a sort of dolce far niente people.
So far I had had only a visit to Soissons on an exceptionally quiet day and the sound of a Zeppelin one night in Essex for all my experience of actual warfare. But my bedroom at the British mission in Udine roused perhaps extravagant expectations.
I was scandalised, and I told the count that the priest would be certain to go to Udine, and that it might turn out a very awkward business. "Try to prevent his doing so," I added, "even by violence, but in the first place endeavour to pacify him." No doubt the count was afraid, for he called out to his servants and ordered them to fetch the priest, whether he could come or no.
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