Things and Thoughts in Europe. Correspondence. No. XV

Things and Thoughts in Europe. Correspondence. No. XV

"Italy--Fruits and Flowers on the Route from Florence to Rome--The Plain of Umbria--Assisi--The Saints--Tuition in Schools--Pius IX--The Etrurian Tomb--Perugia and its Stores of Early Art--Portraits of Raphael--Florence--The Grand Duke and his Policy--The Liberty of the Press and its Influence--The American Sculptors--Greenough and his New Works--Powers--His Statue of Calhoun--Review of his Endeavors--The Festivals of St. John at Florence--Bologna--Female Professors in its University--Matilda Tambroni and others--Milan and her Female Mathematicians--The State of Women in Italy--Ravenna and Byron--Venlee--The American Consul there--The Adda--Milan and its Neighborhood and Manzoni--Excitements--National Affairs, etc."

An article written by Margaret Fuller from Milan about Florence, Rome, and Venice. She notes Austrian spies have marched on Ferrara where an Austrian spy has been assassinated. There is also a possible consiracy in Rome where the National Guard is forming. Published by Horace Greeley in New York.

Margaret Fuller

New-York Tribune

Horace Greeley

Dateline: 9 August 1847; Publication Date: 11 September 1847

Sarah Payne

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