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Camillo Benso Cavour, conte di
Camillo Benso Cavour, conte di , 1810-61, Italian statesman, premier (1852-59, 1860-61) of the Kingdom of Sardinia . The active force behind King Victor Emmanuel II , he was responsible more than any other man for the unification of Italy under the house of Savoy (see Risorgimento ). Of a noble P...
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Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini , 1805-72, Italian patriot and revolutionist, an outstanding figure of the Risorgimento . His youth was spent in literary and philosophical studies. He early joined the Carbonari , was imprisoned briefly, and went into exile. In Marseilles he founded the secret society Giovine Ita...
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Risorgimento
Risorgimento [Ital.,=resurgence], in 19th-century Italian history, period of cultural nationalism and of political activism, leading to unification of Italy.
Roots of the Risorgimento
The Risorgimento's roots lie in 18th-century Italian culture in the works of such people as Ludovico Anto...
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Giovanni Giolitti
Giovanni Giolitti , 1842-1928, Italian public official, five times premier (1892-93, 1903-5, 1906-9, 1911-14, 1920-21). He entered parliament in 1882 and served (1889-90) as minister of finance before becoming premier. By controlling elections, especially in S Italy, and by regrouping coalitions, he...
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Victor Emmanuel II
Victor Emmanuel II 1820-78, king of Sardinia (1849-61) and first king of united Italy (1861-78). He fought in the war of 1848-49 against Austrian rule in Lombardy-Venetia and ascended the throne when his father, Charles Albert , abdicated after the defeat at Novara. With the skillful collaboration...
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Giuseppe Garibaldi , 1807-82, Italian patriot and soldier, a leading figure in the Risorgimento . He remains perhaps the most popular of all Italian heroes of the Risorgimento, and a great revolutionary hero in the Western world.
In South America
Garibaldi was born at Nice and as a youth ...
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Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Louis Napoleon Bonaparte), 1808-73, emperor of the French (1852-70), son of Louis Bonaparte (see under Bonaparte , family), king of Holland.
Early Life
The nephew of Napoleon I, Louis Napoleon spent his youth with his mother, Hortense de Beauharnais , in Switzerland and Ge...
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Mino da Fiesole
Mino da Fiesole or Mino di Giovanni , 1429-84, Florentine sculptor of the early Renaissance. He produced many tombs and sculptures for churches. Among the best are the altar in the cathedral at Fiesole, the monument to Count Hugo in the Badia of Florence, and the tombs of Bishop Salutati, Fiesol...
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Italy
Italy Ĭt´elē , Ital. Italia, officially Italian Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 58,103,000), 116,303 sq mi (301,225 sq km), S Europe. It borders on France in the northwest, the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Ionian Sea in the south, the Adriatic Sea in the...
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Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi , 1844-1926, Italian physician, noted as a neurologist and histologist. He shared with Ramón y Cajal the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the structure of the nervous system. He introduced (c.1870) a method of staining nerve tissue with silver nitrate that ...
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