Cavour.
In July, 1859, the Emperor Napoleon III. concluded a sudden and unexpected armistice with Austria, just at a time when all the world was expecting to see Italy freed from the hated rule of the Hapsburgs, and the Bourbons. Count Cavour resigned his ministerial posts, the indignation of the Italians was unbounded, and revolutions broke out all over the Peninsula.
Count O’Cavourneen, the bubble is breaking
You’ve had the last scene, Solferino’s red hill,
The cannons no longer the echoes are waking,
Count O’Cavourneen, what, Minister still?
O, hast thou forgot the diplomacy clever
In which thou didst bear so distinguished a part,
Thy vow to clear out all the Hapsbugs for ever?