Excerpt from Semi-Serious Observations of an Italian Exile: During His Residence in England Giuseppe, Count Pecchio, the author of the following pages, is not altogether unknown to the English public. In the year 1823 he published some letters on the Spanish revolution; in 1824, a journal of military and political events in Spain during the preceding twelvemonth; and in 1825 (in the New Monthly Magazine) a narrative of a tour in Greece. A few years before he had fled his own country - the north of Italy - to escape the consequences of the share he had taken in the unsuccessful Piedmontese revolution. He had, in the first instance, taken refuge in England, but the climate being injurious to his health, he conceived the hope of finding a more congenial residence in Spain, where he was connected by friendship with some of the most distinguished public characters; - his expulsion from that country he terms a second exile. Since his return from Greece he has, we believe, uninterruptedly continued in England, has married an English lady, and now resides at Brighton. The observations contained in the volume before the reader will often be found particularly striking, from the contrast they present to those of other travellers. Whatever opinion may be formed of Count Pecchio's mode of thinking, it cannot at any rate be denied that he thinks for himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.