sentences:  In 1847, he set off for Italy on the eve of turbulent events that were to take place there and elsewhere in Europe in 1848.There are two letters written by him in Bologna in the summer of 1848 in which he expresses openly republican and anti-clerical views.He later went to Venice where he took part in fighting in Marghera in October 1848, part of a Venetian uprising against the Austrians.