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RUGGERO BONGHI (1828-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 204 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BONGHI (1828-1895)  , See also:Italian See also:scholar, writer and politician, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the loth of See also:March 1828 . Exiled from Naples in consequence of the See also:movement of 1848, he took See also:refuge in See also:Tuscany, whence he was compelled to flee to See also:Turin on See also:account of a pungent See also:article against the Bourbons . At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his See also:translation of See also:Plato, but in 1858 refused a professorship of See also:Greek at See also:Pavia, under the See also:Austrian See also:government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of See also:Lombardy . In 186o, with the See also:Cavour party, he opposed the See also:work of See also:Garibaldi, See also:Crispi and See also:Bertani at Naples, and became secretary of See also:Luigi Carlo See also:Farini during the latter's lieutenancy, but in 1865 assumed contemporaneously the editorship of the Perseveranza of See also:Milan and the See also:chair of Latin literature at See also:Florence . Elected See also:deputy in 1860 he became celebrated by the biting wit of his speeches, while, as journalist, the acrimony of his polemical writings made him a redoubtable adversary . Though an ardent supporter of the historic Right, and, as such, entrusted by the See also:Lanza See also:cabinet with the See also:defence of the See also:law of guarantees in 1870, he was no respecter of persons, his See also:caustic See also:tongue sparing neither friend nor foe . Appointed See also:minister for public instruction in 1873, he, with feverish activity, reformed the Italian educational See also:system, suppressed the privileges of the university of Naples, founded the See also:Vittorio Emanuele library in See also:Rome, and prevented the See also:establishment of a See also:Catholic university in the See also:capital . Upon the fall of the Right from See also:power in 1876 he joined the opposition, and, with characteristic vivacity, protracted during two months the debate on Baccelli's University Reform See also:Bill, securing, single-handed, its rejection . A See also:bitter critic of See also:King See also:Humbert, both in the Perseveranza and in the Nuova Antologia, he was, in 1893, excluded from See also:court, only securing readmission shortly before his See also:death on the 22nd of See also:October 1895 . In See also:foreign policy a Francophil, he combated the Triple See also:Alliance, and took considerable See also:part in the organization of the inter-See also:parliamentary See also:peace See also:conference . (H . W .

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