...osphere. She had new and interesting friends, such as the Milanese Madame Arconati, Marchesa Visconti; and a Polish lady, born Princess Radzivill. But unlike, alas! the majority of Americans in Europe , her whole sympathy was with the party of progress, and the rapid unrolling of events in 1848 made an occasion for her, such a time as I have always dreamed of, she writes. She saw the uprising ag...