DOMENICO GIOVANNI GIUSEPPE MARIA

LANZA (1810–1882)  , Italian politician, was born at Casale, Piedmont, on the 15th of February 181o . He studied medicine at Turin, and practised for some years in his native place . He was one of the promoters of the agrarian association in Turin, and took an active part in the rising of 1848 . He was elected to the Piedmontese parliament in that year, and attached himself to the party of Cavour, devoting his attention chiefly to questions of economy and finance . He became minister of public instruction in 1855 in the cabinet of Cavour, and in 1858 minister of finance . He followed Cavour into his temporary retirement in July 1859 after the peace of Villafranca, and for a year (186o–1861) was president of the Chamber . He was minister of the interior (1864–1865) in the La Marmora cabinet, and arranged the transference of the capital to Florence . He maintained a resolute opposition to the financial policy of Menabrea, who resigned when Lanza was a second time elected, in 1869, president of the Chamber . Lanza formed a new cabinet in which he was himself minister of the interior . With Quintino Sella as minister of finance he sought to reorganize Italian finance, and resigned office when Sella's projects were rejected in 1873 . His cabinet had seen the accomplishment of Italian unity and the installation of an Italian government in Rome . He died in Rome on the 9th of March 1882 .

See Enrico Tavallini, La Vita ed i tempi di Giovanni Lanza (2 vols., Turin and

Naples, 1887) .