Project Gutenberg 2025-07-31 Public domain in the USA. 700 Visconti Venosta, Giovanni 1831 1906 Venosta, Giovanni Visconti Ricordi di gioventù : $b Cose vedute o sapute - 1847-1860 $aMilano :$bCogliati, $c1925. Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library) "Ricordi di gioventù : Cose vedute o sapute - 1847-1860" by Visconti Venosta is a historical memoir written in the early 20th century. It recounts the author’s youth and political awakening in Lombardy and the Valtellina across the turbulent years surrounding the Italian Risorgimento, blending family portraits with eyewitness glimpses of civic life and nationalist agitation. Expect intimate domestic scenes, sketches of notable figures, and a ground-level view of how a generation moved from quiet habits to open resistance. The focus is on lived experience rather than formal history, filtered through an educated Milanese eye. The opening of the memoir frames the narrative as a letter to the author’s nephews, explaining his aim to record what he saw and heard from his childhood through the upheavals that led toward Italian unification. He evokes a loving household, profiling his learned, just father and his witty, compassionate mother, then looks back to a great‑grandfather tied to the Grisons’ rule and a grandfather active in late‑18th‑century Valtellina politics. He contrasts pre‑1848 Milanese customs with later changes, recalls the cholera scare and the imperial procession, and relates early school years at the Boselli institute (the ingenious maestro Pozzi, severe discipline, and classmates), alongside his father’s at‑home lessons and summers in Valtellina. He sketches his father’s scholarly work, contacts with Cesare Correnti and other patriots, and a coach accident that harmed his father’s eyesight, followed by a stormy excursion that preceded his father’s sudden death in 1846. The narrative then shifts to 1847: studies at home, Correnti’s mentorship, fervent readings (Berchet foremost, with Mazzini’s ideas circulating), the rising civic mood marked by Confalonieri’s funeral, a vast women‑led charity drive, and enthusiasm for Pius IX. It culminates in the fraught arrival of Archbishop Romilli, mass illuminations, clashes with police, and the first casualties in Milan, alongside provincial campaigning—hymns, slogans on walls—in the Valtellina; local companions, including the Vienna‑schooled Giacomo Merizzi, enter the scene as the agitation spreads. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20241019093344viscontive 1925 IT Reading ease score: 38.8 (College-level). Difficult to read. it Italy -- History -- 1849-1870 Visconti Venosta, Giovanni, 1831-1906 DG Text Category: Biographies Category: History - European Category: History - Modern (1750+) 1046231 2025-08-27T11:00:11.766933 text/html 1019046 2025-08-27T09:04:14 text/html 766988 2025-08-27T11:00:35.578817 application/epub+zip 763726 2025-08-27T11:00:20.631930 application/epub+zip 630205 2025-08-27T11:00:14.755973 application/epub+zip 1463512 2025-08-27T11:00:48.788790 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1405898 2025-08-27T11:00:34.393793 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 971249 2025-08-27T11:00:09.843914 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 951281 2025-08-27T09:02:34 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17523 2025-08-27T11:00:48.974251 application/rdf+xml 33348 2025-08-27T11:00:19.645910 image/jpeg 4878 2025-08-27T11:00:19.487883 image/jpeg 1250641 2025-08-27T11:00:11.862000 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia it.wikipedia