{"product_id":"2940148143079","title":"Napoleone","description":"Napoleon: Italian life during the French Revolution and the Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Preface (English):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe night after 12 April 1796, a young army-commander, after the Bormida with a vanguard of eight thousand Frenchmen, was thinking in some form between imperious and family with one of those villagers, taken earlier to drive up to the Plodio throat. Among other things, he said, these words were engraved in the mind of the listener, took a lot of admiration and already placed great faith in: \"There are two hundred thousand cowards in Italy, but I will take me.\" He spoke easily Italian, General French, because it was born of Italian land and lineage; willingly spoke Italian in that hour, because, turn as soon as the Alps on the first node of the Apennines, he loved to draw the good wishes with his blood brothers, friends and co-workers hoped to win . He also said not to have come to warring peoples, but kings, enemies of the people, not Italy slave, but Austria, tyrant in someone else's house, according to the bad habit of foreigners, always fell on the beautiful peninsula, as in open field to their contentions of European supremacy.\u003cbr\u003e[100] Two hundred thousand cowards to be used! To not see each other that so many lazy, happy idleness who felt doomed, idlers of Italy were certainly more. But when he had come among us at the head of thirty-six thousand combatants, which he later, in the height of his power, should not have more than five hundred, nor ever, this number, more than two thirds collected under the hand, then it could well shrink in the modest boundaries, and do not ask to Italy, his mother, more than two hundred thousand soldiers. It was already a lot, and for the time and for man. Yet he had done nothing but win, twelve hours before, on the heights of Montenotte, Montenotte and should not be a decisive day until after the battles of Dego happy and Millwall. As well, down from those heights so it was not entirely swept the enemy, and from the bridge leading to the obstacle of Cosseria Càrcare division Augereau, he already felt all inclusive of its high destiny. A stroke of luck had raised him in Toulon, another had earned the favor of the Directory, for the marriage with the widow Beauharnais, friend of Tallien, the Almighty beautiful day. The case is a superb craftsman of events, but as long as it passes the occasion, hurried his daughter, lies in wait who knows how to grab pel tuft. And many [101] expect, that will not see it go, some the acciuffano, which will keep it. Bold, but not the value that justifies the audacity and better for them that they were come out of the darkness, so much shame and trying not won.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Preface (Italian):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLa notte dopo il 12 aprile del 1796, un giovane comandante d'esercito, passata la Bormida con una vanguardia di ottomila Francesi, veniva ragionando in certa sua forma tra imperiosa e familiare con uno di quei valligiani, tolto poc'anzi per guida fino alla gola di Plodio. Tra l'altro ch'egli disse, queste parole rimasero scolpite nella mente dell'ascoltatore, preso di molta ammirazione e già disposto a gran fede: “Ci sono in Italia duecentomila poltroni; ma io li impiegherò.„ Parlava facilmente italiano, il generale francese, perchè era nato italiano di terra e di stirpe; parlava volentieri italiano in quell'ora, perchè, girate appena le Alpi sul primo nodo dell'Appennino, amava trarne il buon augurio con suoi fratelli di sangue, sperati amici e cooperatori di vittoria. Diceva ancora di non esser venuto a guerreggiare i popoli, ma i re, nemici dei popoli; non l'Italia schiava, ma l'Austria, tiranna in casa altrui, secondo il mal uso degli stranieri, sempre calati sulla bella penisola, come in campo aperto alle loro contese di primato europeo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[100] Duecentomila poltroni da impiegare! A non vederci altro che tanti infingardi, contenti dell'ozio a cui si sentivano condannati, i poltroni d'Italia erano certamente di più.","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072570835184,"sku":"2940148143079","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148143079_p0.jpg?v=1763697957","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148143079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}