C.15.1–14. Decorated set of volumes, donated by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco, daughter of Caian Henry Carrington 

Evelyn Lillian Haseldine Carrington married Count Eugenio Martinengo-Cesaresco in Rome in 1882. She had always taken a great interest in the political situation in Italy, and in particular in the unification of Italy in the 19th century. The family into which she married were patriotic aristocrats from Lombardy, her father-in-law having been one of the leaders of the revolution in Brescia in 1849.

As well as being a historian of Risorgimento Italy, the Countess was known for her interest in folklore. She was a well-known writer on folksong at the end of the 19th, start of the 20th century. Her articles regularly appeared in Folklore throughout the 1880s, and her interest seems to have been largely political, as in her translation of Greek folk songs, A Sheaf of Greek Folk Songs, Gleaned by an Old Philhellene, which was a small protest about the Italian occupation of the Greek Dodecanese Islands. The decorated set of volumes which she donated to the Library contain poetry, comic plays and the story of Don Quixote.