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History and Literature, which appeared in 1841, was well received, but was not successful financially. On the outbreak of the Italian revolution in 1848 he at once put himself in communication with the insurgents. He filled the See also:

POST

post of See also:

Charge d'Affaires for See also:

PIEDMONT (Ital. Piemonte; Low Lat. Pedemons and Pedemontium)

Piedmont at See also:

FRANKFORT

Frankfort in 1848-1849, and for the next few years he travelled incessantly between Italy and England, working for the liberation of his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. In 1854, through See also:

Cavour's See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence, he was elected a See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy to the Italian See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament. He retained his seat until 1864, passing the summer in England and fulfilling his See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

parliamentary duties at See also:

TURIN

Turin in the See also:

winter. On the outbreak of the Austro-French See also:

War of 1859 he proceeded to See also:

LOMBARDY

Lombardy as war correspondent of The Times. Tht See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign was so brief that the fighting was over before he arrived, but his connexion with The Times endured for twenty years.

He was a forcible and picturesque writer, with. a corns mand of See also:

ENGLISH

English remarkable for an Italian. He materially helped to establish that friendly feeling towards Italy which became traditional in England. In 1859 Gallenga See also:

PURCHASED

purchased the Falls, at Llandogo on the Wye, as a See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence, and thither he retired in 1885. He died at this See also:

house on the 17th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1895. He was twice married. Among his See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

WORKS

works are an See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Memoir of FM Dolcino and his Times (1853); a History of Piedpaont (3 vols., 1855; Italian See also:

TRANSLATION

translation, 1856); Country Life in Piedmont (1858) ; The Invasion of See also:

Denmark (2 vols., 1864); The See also:

Pearl of the See also:

ANTILLES

Antilles [travels in See also:

CUBA (the aboriginal name)

Cuba] (1873); Italy Revisited XI. 14(2 vols., 1875); Two Years of the Eastern Question (2 vols., 1877); The See also:

Pope [See also:

PIUS

Pius IX.] and the See also:

King [See also:

Victor See also:

EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel] (2 vols., 1879); See also:

South See also:

AMERICA

America (188o) ; A Summer Tour in See also:

Russia (1882); Iberian Reminiscences (2 vols., 1883); Episodes of my Second Life (1884); Italy, See also:

PRESENT

Present and Future (2 vols., 1887). Gallenga's earlier publications appeared under the See also:

PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym of See also:

LUIGI

Luigi Mariotti.

End of Article: GALLENGA, ANTONIO CARLO NAPOLEONE (1810-1895)

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