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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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more

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Newspaper article from: India Today; 7/4/2005; ; 700+ words ; Count Camillo Benso di Cavour once lived here, in this castle on...literary moment in Europe: Premio Grinzane Cavour. Last Saturday, on a sweltering afternoon...the audience, when the 24th Grinzane Cavour Prize was announced, Oscar-style...
Piedmont in the 1850s: Mark Rathbone asks why the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia emerged in the 1850s as the likely unifier of Italy.(TALKING POINTS)
Magazine article from: History Review; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...property was restricted. D'Azeglio's successor, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, continued this anticlerical policy, describing...this was opposed by the Senate and the King, and Cavour had to tone it down, it was eventually passed...
The nation-state: Garibaldi and the 1,000.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/25/1999; 700+ words ; ...worshipped him. In Turin, Piedmont's prime minister, Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, despised him (and was detested by him); but...Vittorio Emanuele was pleased, but cautious. Cavour feared Garibaldi's popularity among the lower classes...
Home of the Winter Games is no stranger to being invaded
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/21/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...fighting neighbors. But then the counts of Savoy scored complete control...firebrands Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo Benso di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi, disparate...founded FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana di Automobil di Torino) in Turin, and after...
Turin Used to Being Invaded by Strangers
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/20/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...fighting neighbors. But then the counts of Savoy scored complete control...firebrands Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo Benso di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi, disparate...founded FIAT (Fabbrica Italiana di Automobil di Torino) in Turin, and after...
Seeing through illusion.(Impressions)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 7/12/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...novel and Visconti's film. Adapted from Giuseppe di Lampedusa's 1958 novel, The Leopard focuses on the...emissary from King Victor Emmanuel II, represents Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, who was an influential figure in the emerging new...
Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/5/1999; 700+ words ; ...Isaiah Berlin, philosopher and historian, 1909. Deaths: Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and jurist, 1832; Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, statesman, 1861; George Grossmith the Younger, actor and writer, 1935; Louis Chevrolet, automobile...
Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of East Asian Studies; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...status. In each stage of the history, Samuels contrasts figures in each country and the choices they made. Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Ito Hirobumi, and Yamagata Aritomo are the critical figures at the founding of each state. Alessando Rossi...
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Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 10/12/2002; 700+ words ; ...landscape has caught his eye. Bianca Principessa di Savoia, a Samoyed, is soaking up the September...has left her tranquil and lazy. Her brother, Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour, better known as Count, interrupts her reverie by shoving his nose...