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Excerpt from The Song of the Sword: A Romance of 1796 The' is a little in on the outskirts of Piacenza, which to this day is pointed out to the visiting stranger, as one of the sights of that ancient city. The house is in no way remarkable, and does not dif fer from a great many others - still, the guide will take you there and point to a marble slab over the door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.