ABSTRACT
IT AL Y united, all one from the Straits of Messina to the summits of the Alps, that is a splendid vision which in modern times has powerfully moved many hearts and minds. There are probably but few still living who remember much of the stirring events which brought about in 1870, after a long struggle and in face of great obstacles, the unity of modern Italy. But many recall the efforts made since the beginning of the second decade of this century not only to bring the Trentino, the Alto Adige, and Venezia Giulia (including Histria) within the Italian frontier, but also to modify, if not to destroy, the anomaly of the papal sovereign and independent state in the Vatican dty-a kingdom within a kingdom. That other anomaly, San Marino, a republic within a kingdom, can hardly be said to blur the picture which we have of united Italy, any more than the Swiss canton Ticino or the papal state.
