The child has been very earnest about Italian politics.

The heroine of that poem called 'The Dance'[74] was Madame di Laiatico.

The 'Court Lady' is an individualisation of a general fashion, the ladies at Milan having gone to the hospitals in full dress and in open carriages.

Macmahon taking up the child[75] is also historical.

I believe the facts to be in the book: 'He has done it all,'[76] were Cavour's words.