Chapter 28 LO ZIO MINISTRO. No.28

[1] le Cinque giornate di Milano, alludes to the "Glorious Five Days' Revolution" at Milan in March, 1848, which resulted in the expulsion of the Austrians from the city.

[2] pensa a trarne partito, think about turning it to account.

[3] Fieschi, a Corsican assassin who, in 1835, at Paris, made use of an infernal machine in an attempt to put