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See also:COUNT See also:LUIGI See also:CIBRARIO (1802—1870)
, See also:Italian statesman and historian, descended from a See also:noble but impoverished Piedmontese See also:family, was See also:born in Usseglia on the 23rd of See also:February 1802
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He won a scholarship at the See also:age of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen
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His verses to See also: It was he who in 1853 dictated the vigorous memorandum of protest against the See also:confiscation by Austria of the See also:property of Lombard exiles who had been naturalized in Piedmont . He strongly supported Cavour's See also:Crimean policy (1855), and when See also:General La See also:Marmora departed in command of the expeditionary force and Cavour took the war See also:office, Cibrario was made minister for See also:foreign affairs . He See also:con-ducted the business of the See also:department with See also:great skill, and ably seconded Cavour in bringing about the See also:admission of Piedmont to the See also:congress of See also:Paris on an equal footing with the great See also:powers . On retiring from the foreign office Cibrario was created count . In 186o he acted as mediator between Victor Emmanuel's See also:government and the See also:republic of See also:San See also:Marino, and arranged a treaty by which the latter's liberties were guaranteed . After the war of 1866 by which Austria lost See also:Venetia, Cibrario negotiated with that government for the restitution of See also:state papers and See also:art treasures removed by it from See also:Lombardy and Venetia to See also:Vienna . He died in October 187o, near See also:Sale', on the See also:lake of See also:Garda . His most important See also:work was his Economia politica del medio evo (Turin, 1839), which enjoyed great popularity at the See also:time, but is now of little value . His Schiavitit e servaggio (See also:Milan, 1868-186g) gave an See also:account of the development and abolition of See also:slavery and See also:serfdom . Among his See also:historical writings the following deserve mention:—Delle artiglierie dal 1300 al 1700 (Turin, 1847); Origini . . . . della monarchia di Savoia (Turin, 1854); Degli ordini cavallereschi (Turin, 1846); Degli ordini religiose (Turin, 1845); and the Memorie Segrete of Charles Albert, written by order of Victor Emmanuel but afterwards withdrawn . Cibrario was a See also:good example of the loyal, industrious, honest Piedmontese aristocrat of the old school . His See also:biography has been written by F . Odorici, II See also:Conte L . Cibrario (See also:Florence, 1872) . (L . |
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