Excerpt from Inner Rome: Political, Religious, and Social More than two years' residence in Rome, it may well be believed, has afforded the author some peculiar facilities for penetrating to the knowledge of the inner religious and social state of Rome. The truth of his statements on such subjects derived from Roman friends, and from the friends and the banished citizens of Rome in other parts of Italy, must rest upon his own char acter. A citizen of the United States is more readily admitted into the confidence of a Roman patriot than one of any other country. It is believed that he will be thoroughly in sympathy with the Italian aspirations for Independence, and that he will be less liable, than a citizen of any European State, to make disclosures which might tend to compromise individuals, or the cause to which they are devoted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.