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MARCO See also:MINGHETTI (1818-1886) , See also:Italian economist and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bologna on the 18th of See also:November 1818 . In 1846 he signed the See also:petition to the See also:Conclave for the See also:election of a Liberal See also:pope, and was appointed member of the See also:state See also:council summoned to prepare the constitution for the papal states . With See also:Antonio Montanari and Rodolfo Audinot he founded at Bologna a See also:paper, Il Felsineo . In the first constitutional See also:cabinet, presided over by See also:Cardinal See also:Antonelli, See also:Minghetti held the See also:portfolio of public See also:works, but after the See also:allocution by See also:Pius IX. against the Italian See also:war of See also:independence he resigned, and joined the Piedmontese See also:army as See also:captain on the See also:general See also:staff . Returning to See also:Rome in See also:September 1848, he refused to See also:form a cabinet after the assassination of Pellegrino See also:Rossi, and spent the next eight years in study and travel . Summoned to See also:Paris by See also:Cavour in 1856 to prepare the memorandum on the Romagna provinces for the Paris See also:congress, he was in 1859 appointed by Cavour secretary-general of the Piedmontese See also:Foreign See also:Office . In the same See also:year he was elected See also:president of the See also:assembly of the Romagna after the rejection of pontifical See also:rule by those provinces, and prepared their See also:annexation to See also:Piedmont . Appointed Piedmontese See also:minister of the interior, he resigned office shortly after Cavour's See also:death, but was subsequently chosen to be minister of See also:finance by See also:Farini, whom he succeeded as premier in 1863 . With the help of See also:Visconti-Venosta he concluded (See also:Sept . 15, 1864) the " September See also:Convention " with See also:France, whereby See also:Napoleon agreed to evacuate Rome, and See also:Italy to See also:transfer her See also:capital from See also:Turin to See also:Florence . The convention excited violent opposition at Turin, in consequence of which Minghetti was obliged to resign office . He took little See also:part in public See also:life until 1869, when he accepted the portfolio of See also:agriculture in the See also:Menabrea Cabinet .
Both in and out of office he exercised his See also:influence against an Italo-See also:French See also:alliance and for an immediateadvance upon Rome, and in 187o was sent to See also:London and See also:Vienna by the See also:Lanza-See also:Sella Cabinet to organize a See also:league of neutral See also:powers on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War
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In 1873 he overthrew the Lanza-Sella Cabinet and regained the premier-See also:ship, which, with the portfolio of finance, he held until the fall of the Right from See also:power on the 18th of See also: |
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