Excerpt from Vestigia, Vol. 1<br><br>IT was nearly five O'clock of a raw and Windy afternoon in the month of March, 187 when a young man, Bernardino de Rossi by name, came hastily out of an inner room Of the Telegraph Office build ing at Leghorn, letting the heavy swing ing door close sharply behind him with a disagreeable sound.<br><br>The room which he entered was one reserved for the use Of the Government clerks. Its floor was bare; its high walls.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.