Download or read book Lives of Great Italians (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Horridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lives of Great Italians In respect oi dramatic materials for biography, Italy may be looked on as a chosen land. Its great men are almost invariably historical. Their fortune is linked to that of their country. The nature of their acts or productions oi'ten depends directly on the incidents which happen around them, and many of them play an active part in politics. Thus, not only the central figure, but the background also, is of interest in the picture which the writer has to trace. His difliculty consists, indeed, in the selection rather than in the collection of matter. 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.