Mazzini labored for the freedom of Italy, but was exiled. Byron and Goethe also battled for liberty. Mazzini wrote an essay in which he compared Byron to a soaring eagle and Goethe to a contented stork. (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)
Byron arrived in Greece to fight for Greek freedom, Jan. 5, 1824.
Introductory Note: Giuseppe Mazzini
Introductory Note: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Fisherman and His Wife, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Introductory Note: Marcus Tullius Cicero
On Friendship (Part I), by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Introductory Note: John Milton
Poems Written in School and College, by John Milton
Introductory Note: Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Ch. IX), by Benjamin Franklin
Introductory Note: Thomas Carlyle
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh University, by Thomas Carlyle
Introductory Note: Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years before the Mast (Ch. XIII), by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Introductory Note: Homer
The Odyssey (Book XXII), by Homer
Introductory Note: Sir Francis Drake
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Introductory Note: Charles Darwin (#2)
The Voyage of the Beagle (Ch. XVII), by Charles Darwin
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