26. An Italian Opera

0.     Orsini to Napoléon III, Aeau, op. cit., pp. 170–171, n. 1.

0.     Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 165.

0.     The Times, Friday, Jan. 15, 1858, p. 7, referring to events of Jan. 14.

0.     The Times, Saturday, Jan. 16, 1858, pp. 7 and 9. All reports here are from their special correspondent, occasionally quoting from the Moniteur Universel, of Friday, Jan. 15, 1858.

0.     The Times, Saturday, Jan. 16, 1858, pp. 7 and 9. “THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF EMPEROR NAPOLEON.”

0.     The Times, Sat., Jan 16, Ibid.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Ibid.; Cowley [Henry Richard Charles Wellesley], op. cit., p. 152—Cowley to For. Sec. Malmesbury, March 16, 1858; The Times, Friday, Jan. 15, 1858, 6 p.m., p. 7.

0.   The Times, Monday, Jan. 18, 1858, pp. 7, 8 and 9; and The Times editorial of Saturday, Jan. 16, 1858, p. 8. For the Maupas comment, see Emile de Maupas, Mémoires sur le Second Empire (Paris: Dentu, 1882), vol. II, p. 81 ff.

0.   Marcel Le Clère’s article, “Orsini,” in the DSE, pp. 944–945, and for greater details, “Felice Orsini,” in the Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani (Roma: Istituto della Encclopedia Italiana, 2013), vol. 70, pp. 638–642.

0.   Bernardy, Walewski, op. cit., p. 230; Clarendon to Cowley, Jan. 15, 1858; and Cowley to Clarendon, Jan. 18, 1858, Cowley, op. cit., pp. 147, 150.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 232.

0.   Cowley, op. cit., pp. 150–151, Clarendon to Cowley, Jan. 19, 1858; see Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 184–185.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 234–235. “Qui le cas échéant.” The new Privy Council was comprised of Cardinal Nicholas Morlot, Marshal Aimable Pélissier—the new Duke de Malakoff, Minister of State Achille Fould, the newly created Comte de Persigny, Senator Raymond Troplong, and Auguste de Morny.

0.   As a result of the passage of the Government of India Act in August 1848, the East India Company ceased to exist, the administration of India now placed under the British Crown. On May 1, 1871, Disraeli was to create Victoria Empress of India.

0.   Cowley, op. cit., p. 163. Victoria to Cowley, April 18, 1858; Cowley, Ibid., Malmesbury to Cowley, April 17, 1858, p. 162; Ibid., Clarendon to Cowley, Jan. 16, 1858, p. 248. My italics.

0.   Orsini to Napoléon III, Feb. 1858, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 170, n. 1.

0.   Cowley to Clarendon, March 3, 1858, Cowley, op. cit., p. 159.

0.   Cowley, op. cit., p. 160, Cowley’s farewell to outgoing Clarendon on March 3. Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 232. According to Blanchard Jerrold, Louis Napoléon was deeply distressed by having to order the execution of Felix Orsini because Orsini’s father had fought by Louis Napoléon’s side in the Romagna in 1831—he had executed a friend’s son. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 169.

0.   See the excellent article on “Cavour” in the Dizionario Biografico Degli Italiani, vol. 23, pp. 120–128. Camillo Paolo filippo Giulio Benson, Conte di Cavour, was born in Turin on Aug. 10, 1810, dying in that same city on June 6, 1861. His father, Carlo Benso, Conte di Cavour, was a founding leader of the “Risorgimento” (Resurrection) movement leading to a unified Italy.

0.   Vittorio Emanuele Mari Alberto Eugenio Ferdinando Tommaso, 1820–1878. Cavour knew him from the day he was born in Turin on the fourteenth of March [1820]. He served as King of Sardinia, 1849–1861, until Italian independence. His mother, Maria Theresa, was a Habsburg, and he later married Adelaide, a Habsburg cousin, thereby complicating his relations with Vienna over the Italian War of Independence from the Austrians.

0.   Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, pp. 174–175.