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BY ALICE BIRKHEAD B.A.
AUTHOR OF 'THE STORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION' 'MARIE ANTOINETTE' 'PETER THE
GREAT' ETC. WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO. LTD. LONDON CALCUTTA SYDNEY
[Transcriber's note: Page numbers in this book are indicated by numbers
enclosed in curly braces, e.g. {99}. They have been located where page
breaks occurred in the original book, in accordance with Project
Gutenberg's FAQ V 99. For its Index, a page number has been placed
only at the start of that section. In the HTML version of this book,
page numbers are placed in the left margin.]
First published July 1913 by GEORGE G. HARRAP & Co. 39 41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2
Reprinted in the present series: February 1914; August 1917; May 1921; January 1924; July 1926
Contents
CHAP. I. THE TWO SWORDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
II. DANTE, THE DIVINE POET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
III. LORENZO THE MAGNIFICENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
IV. THE PRIOR OF SAN MARCO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
V. MARTIN LUTHER, REFORMER OF THE CHURCH . . . . . . . . 52
VI. CHARLES V, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
VII. THE BEGGARS OF THE SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
VIII. WILLIAM THE SILENT, FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY . . . . . . 86
IX. HENRY OF NAVARRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
X. UNDER THE RED ROBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
XI. THE GRAND MONARCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
XII. PETER THE GREAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
XIII. THE ROYAL ROBBER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
XIV. SPIRITS OF THE AGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
XV. THE MAN FROM CORSICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
XVI. "GOD AND THE PEOPLE" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
XVII. "FOR ITALY AND VICTOR EMMANUEL!" . . . . . . . . . . 195
XVIII. THE THIRD NAPOLEON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
XIX. THE REFORMER OF THE EAST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
XX. THE HERO IN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Illustrations
LEO TOLSTOY IN HIS BARE APARTMENTS
AT YASNAYA POLYANA ( Repin ). . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece DANTE IN THE STREETS OF FLORENCE ( Evelyn Paul ) . . . . . . . 22 THE LAST SLEEP OF SAVONAROLA ( Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A. ) . . 60 PHILIP II PRESENT AT AN AUTO DA FÉ ( D. Valdivieso ) . . . . . 78 LAST MOMENTS OF COUNT EGMONT ( Louis Gallait ) . . . . . . . . 90 AN APPLICATION TO THE CARDINAL FOR HIS FAVOUR ( Walter Gay ) 124 FREDERICK THE GREAT RECEIVING HIS PEOPLE'S HOMAGE
( A. Menzel ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 THE MEETING OF VICTOR EMMANUEL AND GARIBALDI ( Pietro Aldi ) 204 {9} Heroes of Modern Europe
Chapter I The Two Swords In the fourth century after Christ began that decay of the Roman Empire
which had been the pride of the then civilized world. Warriors of
Teutonic race invaded its splendid cities, destroyed without remorse
the costliest and most beautiful of its antique treasures. Temples and
images of the gods fell before barbarians whose only fear was lest they
should die "upon the straw," while marble fountains and luxurious
bath houses were despoiled as signs of a most inglorious state of
civilization. Theatres perished and, with them, the plays of Greek
dramatists, who have found no true successors. Pictures and statues
and buildings were defaced where they were not utterly destroyed. The
Latin race survived, forlornly conscious of its vanished culture. The Teutons had hardly begun to impose upon the Empire the rude customs
of their own race when Saracens, bent upon spreading the religion of
Mahomet, bore down upon Italy, where resistance from watchtowers and
castles was powerless to check their cruel depredations. Norman
pirates plundered the shores of the Mediterranean and sailed up the
River Seine, {10} always winning easy victories... Continue reading book >>
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