All Italians received a shock last Saturday when they heard
of the death, after a short illness, of Signor Zanardelli, so lately the Premier, and through life one of the directors of Liberal opinion. He was almost the last of the great group which helped to make Italy. He accompanied Garibaldi to Sicily, governed a province under him, and while still young was recognised by the whole peninsula as a constructive statesman. An accomplished lawyer, his special work was code-making, and Italy owes to him her commercial and much of her penal code ; but he guided his party also in general politics, sometimes with unexpected success. His strength was not only derived from his courage and his habit of steady work, but from a. certain reasonableness and capacity of compromise which is sometimes lacking to Italian politicians.
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