title: Rome: The Golden Centuries
author: Marco Bussagli
description: Marco Bussagli is an Italian art historian. He teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
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  ### Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  PREFACE.
  
  
  CHAPTER I. HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT
  
  
  CHAPTER II. TRAVEL-YEARS
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE JOURNALIST
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. IN PARLIAMENT
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE GREAT MINISTRY
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE CRIMEAN WAR—STRUGGLE WITH THE
  
  
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  CHAPTER VII. THE CONGRESS OF PARIS
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE PACT OF PLOMBIERES
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE WAR OF 1859—VILLAFRANCA
  
  
  CHAPTER X. SAVOY AND NICE
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE KINGDOM OF ITALY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. ROME VOTED THE CAPITAL—CONCLUSION
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  CAVOUR
  
  
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  THE COUNTESS EVELYN MARTINENGO-CESARESCO
  
  
  1898
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Italia, ab exteris liberanda_.
  
  
  Motto of Pope JULIUS II.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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