The monument to Victor Emmanuel at Yincenza has one feature about it which we must needs admire for its great truthfulness. The King is represented with his hand " firmly set on a piece of Koman ruin." This is precisely as it should be, though we should hardly have thought that the friends of this destroyer of the real glory of Italy would, in so marked a manner, have signified their opinion of his fatal career. The son of Charles Albert with " a piece of Roman ruin V Quite ao 1 — Universe.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 408, 4 February 1881, Page 19
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