Excerpt from Beatrice Cenci On leaving Corsica, Guerrazzi settled in Florence, and for a time he was occupied with the practice of law. When the revolution of 1848 broke out, he was one of its moving spirits, and was again imprisoned for a short time. As soon as he was released, he joined the party of Mazzini, Gioberti, and other revolutionists, founded a republican newspaper in Florence, was elected deputy to the national assembly of Tuscany, and on the fall of the Capponi cabinet was appointed Minister of the In terior After the flight of the Grand Duke, in the same year, when the Italian duchies were republican ized, Guerrazzi became dictator of the temporary gov ernment, which one month later was overthrown. He was arrested illegally, and was unjustly sent to the state prison at Volterra, where he remained until 1853, wri ting while in prison a defense of his political conduct, entitled Apologia della vita politica dz' Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi (florence, Notwithstanding the good sense and complete self-justification of this Apology. 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.