Professor Salvemini, Italy's greatest living historian, honoured Warwick, and particularly the King's High School on Friday last week, when he lectured to a large audience on Mazzini, the apostle of Italian unity and independence Professor Salvemini is the modern Mazzini; he suffered imprisonment in Florence last year because of his political opinions, and he too, is working for a new order in Europe.

Mr Bolton King M.A., Mazzini's biographer and author of the History of Italian Unity presided at the lecture and also spoke on Mazzini.

‘It is a great honour for us’, said Mr Bolton King, opening the address, ‘to have here Professor Salvemini to talk to us. We welcome him for two reasons. Firstly because he is a great historian, one of the most distinguished of modern historians, with world-wide fame. Secondly because he is a great patriot. He has not been afraid to risk his life, comfort and position in order to protest against the ruffianism which now takes the place of government in Italy. I am sure that his fellow countrymen will hail him home as one of the men who had the courage to express opinions which they most share, but few dared to express (…).’

Mazzini's two theories

‘It is with much emotion that I speak of Mazzini before the man to whom Italy owes the finest biography of Mazzini’, began Professor Salvemini, ‘but at the same time I feel that the presence of Mr Bolton King is a good omen, and I thank him for the honour he does me in taking the chair.