Beautiful and heartfelt letter in which the deep condolences and human compassion for a person dear to Mazzini, now lost, rises, but together the moral and human strength of man, of his friend, rises: "you are right to suffer, I share the your pain. If I could relieve it I would be happy. And I am sending you this handshake from afar but with all my heart. " Another key point of the letter is when he affirms his faith in immortality: "I believe in immortality, and that an affection like theirs does not die out with death; that they have to meet elsewhere; that you always think of him with pain, but not with desperate pain. " The final closure is innervated by a pessimism and a despondency so human as to make the hero of the Risorgimento disappear: "My fate is also sad, of not being able to set foot on the land where I was born and which proclaims the idea taught by me , without the monarchy coming to chase me away. " The miserable condition of exile in his homeland will affect many years of his life, in perennial escape from the country he had helped to create but which vilely repudiated him. There is - in these few lines - all the Mazzini man, prophet and politician who made Italy more than many others.