Abstract
In March 1861, Sir Robert Peel, son of the famous Prime Minister, thus spoke in the House of Commons. The third baronet enjoyed a repu-tation as an analyst of Italian affairs. Indeed he had used the Italian cause to consolidate his standing within the Liberal Party and attracted Palmerston’s esteem thanks to his relentless support for Italy against Austria and against the Papacy. His enthusiasm was shared by large parts of the English population throughout the early 1860s, whereas in the second half of the decade the hopes for a Reformation in Italy slowly began to fade, as the Italians kept showing a substantial indifference, if not hostility, to the preaching of Protestant doctrines, and Catholic priests seemed to find new confidence in opposing the evangelicals, as we shall see in the present chapter.KeywordsReligious FreedomCatholic PriestTemporal PowerReligious LibertyCatholic ReligionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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