Mazzini labored for the freedom of Italy, but was exiled. Byron and Goethe also battled for liberty. Mazzini wrote an essay in which he compared Byron to a soaring eagle and Goethe to a contented stork. (Volume 32, Harvard Classics)
Byron arrived in Greece to fight for Greek freedom, Jan. 5, 1824.
Introductory Note: Walt Whitman
Poems, by Walt Whitman
Introductory Note: Drake’s Great Armada
Drake’s Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges
Introductory Note: Benvenuto Cellini
Autobiography (Vol. I, Ch. XIII-XIX), by Benvenuto Cellini
Introductory Note: George Berkeley
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (The Second Dialogue), by George Berkeley
Introductory Note: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust (Part I), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Introductory Note: American Historical Documents
First Charter of Virginia
Introductory Note: The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
The New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon
Introductory Note: Aeschylus
The Libation-Bearers (Part II), by Aeschylus
Introductory Note: William Wordsworth
Poems, by William Wordsworth
Introductory Note: Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (VII), by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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