Excerpt from The Tuscan Poet Giuseppe Giusti: And His Times The writings, character, and example of the Poet and Satirist, giuseppe giusti, are acknowledged through out Italy, to have had no inconsiderable share in leading to the realization of the hopes of all true Italian hearts. The idea of a United Italy, so long treated with contempt or ridicule, as the dream of ambitious usurpers or of restless political exiles, has at length attained a substantial form, and has been acquiesced in and approved since successfully achieved. The hot-headed and inexperienced youth, as well as the masses of the Italian people, have, now for a suc cession of years, maintained an attitude which has won for them the respect and admiration of nations glorying, like the Israelites of old, in their superiority. 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.