tion in Rome.--Margaret's zeal for Italian Freedom.--Her
return to Rome.--Review of the Civic Guard.--Church Fasts and
Feasts.--Pope Pius.--The Rainy Season.--Promise of Representative
Government in Rome.--Celebration of this event.--Mazzini's Letter to the
Pope.--Beauty of the Spring.--Italy in Revolution.--Popular excitements
in Rome.--Pope Pius deserts the Cause of Freedom.--Margaret leaves Rome
for Aquila 219

CHAPTER XIV.

Margaret's marriage.--Character of the Marchese Ossoli.--Margaret's
first meeting with him.--Reasons for not divulging the
marriage.--Aquila.--Rieti.--Birth of Angelo Eugene Ossoli.--Margaret's
return to Rome.--Her anxiety about her child.--Flight of Pope Pius.--The
Constitutional Assembly.--The Roman Republic.--Attitude of France.--The
Siege of Rome.--Mazzini.--Princess Belgiojoso.--Margaret's care of the
Hospitals 232

CHAPTER XV.

Siege of Rome.--Margaret's care of the sick and wounded.--Anxiety about
her husband and child.--Battle between the French and Italian
troops.--The Surrender.--Garibaldi's departure.--Margaret joins her
husband at his post.--Angelo's illness.--Letters from friends in
America.--Perugia.--Winter in Florence.--Margaret's domestic
life.--Aspect of her future.--Her courage and industry.--Ossoli's
affection for her.--William Henry Hurlbut's reminiscences of them
both.--Last days in Florence.--Farewell visit to the Duomo.--Margaret's
evenings at home.--Horace Sumner.--Margaret as a friend of
the people 245

CHAPTER XVI.

Margaret turns her face homeward.--Last letter to her mother.--The
barque "Elizabeth."--Presages and omens.--Death of the
captain.--Angelo's illness.--The wreck.--The long struggle.--The
end 265

CHAPTER XVII.

Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains 280

INDEX 293

FOOTNOTES

MARGARET FULLER.

CHAPTER I.

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH.--SCHOOL DAYS.

The subject of the following sketch, Sarah Margaret Fuller, has already
been most fortunate in her biographers. Cut off herself in the prime of
life, she left behind her devoted friends who were still in their full
vigor of thought and sentiment. Three of th