This short book derives from an article published in the periodical
Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel, edited by Francis Galton, in
1860. W. G. Clark (1821-78) was most famous as co-editor of the
Cambridge Shakespeare, but was originally a classical scholar,
whose Peloponnesus (1858) is also reissued in this series. This
lively account of a critical period in Italian history, 'during the
occurrence of events so strange and sudden that they resembled
incidents of a romantic melodrama rather than real history',
deliberately avoids the usual landscapes, ruins and peasants to
give a day-by-day description of events in Naples at the time when
Garibaldi had arrived in the city during his campaign for the
liberation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. However, as well as
narrating political and military developments, Clark introduces
some picturesque notes, including an account of the famous
'miracle' of the liquefaction of St Gennaro's blood.
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