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Excerpt from Recollections of Massimo D'azeglio, Vol. 2 of 2: Translated, With Notes and an Introduction
I paint a picture representing Leonidas at Thermopylae, which my father offers to King Charles Felix - Don Luigi de' Prin cipi Spada, a good fellow, but very hare-brained-he had let himself be involved in the secret societies - Secret societies in Rome in the year 1824 - Nobody ever proposed to me to join in any political conspiracy - Political assassination, and the sects which resort to it - A few noble souls led astray among many bad ones - Montanari, a Romagnole doctor, at Rocca di Papa - The inhabitants of Romagna - I see Montanari and his friend Targhini beheaded on the scaffold - Remarks on their impenitence - Prince Spada again, and Sor Checco Tozzi Supernatural adventure on one of his excursions to Loretto often narrated by Sor Checco - I revisit Marino after twenty one years, and only find Sora Nina still alive - Death of Pius VII. And enthronisation Of Leo XII. - Great joy at the fall Of Cardinal Consalvi - My Opinion of that personage.
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