See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

COUNT COSTANTINO See also:

• COUNT COSTANTINO NIGRA (1828-1907)

NIGRA (1828-1907)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian diplomatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born'at See also:

• VILLA

Villa Castelnuovo, in the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of See also:

• TURIN

Turin, on the 11th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1828 . During the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of 1848 he interrupted his studies to serve as a volunteer against See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria, and was wounded at the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Rivoli . On the conclusion of See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace he entered the Piedmontese See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office; he accompanied See also:

• VICTOR
• VICTOR, GAIUS JULIUS (4th cent. A.D.)
• VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

Victor See also:

• EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

Emmanuel and See also:

• CAVOUR (anc. Caburrum or Forum Vibii)
• CAVOUR, CAMILLO BENSO, COUNT (1810–18.61)

Cavour to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris and See also:

• LONDON

London in 1855, and in the following See also:

• YEAR

year he took See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• CONFERENCE

conference of Paris by which the See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean War was brought to an end . After the See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting at Plombieres between Cavour and See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon III . See also:

• NIGRA, COSTANTINO, COUNT (1828-1907)

Nigra was sent to Paris again to popularize a Franco-Piedmontese See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance, Nigra being, as Cavour said, " the only See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person perhaps who knows all my thoughts, even the most See also:

• SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

secret." He was instrumental in negotiating the See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage between Victor Emmanuel's daughter Clothilde and Napoleon's See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, and during the war of 1859 he was always with the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor . He was recalled from Paris when the occupation of the See also:

• MARCHE
• MARCHE, or LA MARCHE

Marche and See also:

• UMBRIA
• UMBRIA ('Opj3pucrl)

Umbria by the Piedmontese caused a See also:

• BREACH (Mid. Eng. breche, derived from the common Teutonic root brec, which appears in " break," Ger. brechen, &c.)

breach in Franco-Italian relations, and was appointed secretary of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state to the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince of See also:

• CARIGNANO

Carignano, See also:

• VICEROY (from O. Fr. viceroy, mod. viceroi, i.e. Lat. vice, in place of, and roy or roi, king)

viceroy of the Neapolitan provinces . When Napoleon recognized the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy in 1861, Nigra returned to See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France as See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister-See also:

• RESIDENT

resident, and for many years played a most important part in See also:

• POLITICAL

political affairs . In 1876 he was transferred to St See also:

• PETERSBURG

Petersburg with the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador, in 1882 to London, and in 1885 to See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna . In 1899 he represented Italy at the first See also:

• HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague Peace Conference . In 1904 he retired, and he died at See also:

• RAPALLO

Rapallo on the 1st of See also:

• JULY

July 1907 . He was created See also:

• COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

count in 1882 and senator in 189o . Nigra was a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound classical See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, and published See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations of many See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek and Latin poems with valuable comments; he was also a poet and the author of several See also:

• WORKS

works of folk-See also:

• LORE
• LORE, AMBROISE DE (1396-1446)

lore and popular See also:

• POETRY

poetry, of which the most important is his Canti popolari del Piemonte .