The force of Destiny. A history of Italy since 1796.

Contents: Mirabeau (the French Revolution) - Edmund Burke (political morality) - Napoleon Bonaparte (the French Empire) - Prince Metternich (conservatism) - Chateaubriand (the restoration and fall of the Bourbons) - George IV (Toryism) - The Greek Revolution - Louis Philippe (the citizen king). New York, James Clarke & Company 1886, cm.15x22, pp.369,(5), 14 incis. in bn.ft. di cui una protetta da velina all'antip., rilegatura coeva in mz.pelle verde scuro con grandi angoli ai piatti, dorso a 4 nervi con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso, piatti in tela grigia. [buon esemplare.]