The Speech Of Count Camillo Cavour Pesident Of The Council Of Ministers At The Sitting Of The 16th April 1858 On The Proposed Law Relative To Conspiracy Against Foreign Soverigns, Political Assassination And The Composition Of The Jury Upon The Press

1st edition.~ Disbound, VG. 44pp, Ink signature of the Earl Of Bedford across the title, a good copy. ~ Cavour was the founder of Modern Italy. This speech is in response to a polt carried out in January 1858 by an Italian called Orsini. It was Orsini's plan to assassinate Napoleon III and thus bring turmoil to Europe, which he hoped would free Italy from Austrian rule. Later in the same year Cavour himself plotted with Napoleon III against the Austrian Empire to try & bring about the reorganisation of the Italian Peninsular. The Second War of Italian Independence started in 1859. Sir George Augustus Frederick Henry Bridgeman, 2nd Earl of Bradford, [1789 - 1865] of Weston Park, Staffordshire.