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CESARE See also:CORRENTI (1815-1888) , See also:Italian revolutionist and politician, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:January 1815, at See also:Milan, of a poor but See also:noble See also:family . While employed in the public See also:debt See also:administration, he flooded See also:Lombardy with revolutionary See also:pamphlets designed to excite hatred against the Austrians, and in 1848 proposed the See also:general abstention of the Milanese from smoking, which gave rise to the insurrection known as the Five Days . During the revolt he was one of the leading See also:spirits of the operations of the insurgents . Until the reoccupation of Milan by the Austrians he was secretary-general of the provisional See also:government, but afterwards he fled to See also:Piedmont, whence he again distributed his revolutionary pamphlets throughout Lombardy, earning a See also:precarious livelihood by journalism . Elected See also:deputy in 1849, he worked strenuously for the See also:national cause, supporting See also:Cavour in his See also:Crimean policy, although he belonged to the See also:Left . After the See also:annexation of Lombardy he was made See also:commissioner for the See also:liquidation of the See also:Lombardo-Venetian debt, in 186o was appointed councillor of See also:state, and received various other public positions, especially in connexion with the railway and See also:financial administration . He veered See also:round to the Right, and in 1867 and again in 1869 he held the See also:portfolio of See also:education; he played an important See also:part in the events consequent upon the occupation of See also:Rome, and helped to draft the See also:Law of Guarantees . As See also:minister of education he suppressed the theological faculties in the Italian See also:universities, but eventually resigned See also:office and allied himself with the Left again on See also:account of conservative opposition to his reforms . His defection from the Right ultimately assured the See also:advent of the Left to See also:power in 1876; and while declining office, he remained See also:chief adviser of See also:Agostino See also:Depretis until the latter's See also:death . On several occasions—notably in connexion with the redemption of the Italian See also:railways, and with the See also:Paris See also:exhibition of 1878—he acted as representative of the government . In 1877 he was given the lucrative See also:appointment of secretary of the See also:order of See also:Saints See also:Maurice and See also:Lazarus by Depretis, and in 1886 was created senator . He died at Rome on the 4th of See also:October 1888 . He left a considerable See also:body of writings on a variety of subjects, none of which is of exceptional merit . See E . Massarani, Cesare See also:Correnti nella vita e nelle opere (189o); and L . See also:Carpi, Il Risorgimento italiano, vol. iv . (Milan, 1888) . (L . |
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