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FEDERIGO SCLOPIS DI SALERANO (1798-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 407 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FEDERIGO SCLOPIS DI SALERANO (1798-1878)  , See also:

Italian statesman and jurist . While still comparatively See also:young he was appointed See also:attorney-See also:general to the Sardinian See also:senate, and took See also:part in the compilation of the new codes . An See also:advocate of liberal ideas and reform, he proclaimed the See also:necessity for a constitution, and was himself one of the authors of the Statuto, or Sardinian See also:charter of 1848, which is to this See also:day the constitution of the Italian See also:kingdom; the introduction is entirely his See also:work, Sclopis also wrote the See also:proclamation in which See also:Charles See also:Albert announced to the See also:people of See also:Lombardy and See also:Venetia his See also:war against See also:Austria . He was See also:minister in the first Sardinian constitutional See also:ministry under the See also:presidency of See also:Count See also:Balbo, and afterwards See also:president of the senate . In 1871 he was sent to See also:Geneva as See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel's representative on the " See also:Alabama " See also:arbitration, and was chosen president of that tribunal; on his return to See also:Italy the See also:king conferred on him the See also:Order of the Annunziata . The last years of his See also:life were mainly occupied with municipal affairs and charitable See also:administration at See also:Turin . Between 1819 and 1878 he published over seventy See also:works on See also:history, See also:jurisprudence, politics and literature, in Italian, Latin and See also:French . At the See also:age of See also:thirty he was elected member of the Turin See also:Academy of Sciences, of which he became life president in 1864; he was also See also:foreign memberof the Institut de See also:France . His most important work is his Storia della legislaziona Italian See also:dalle origini fino at 1847 (Turin, 1840), issued as a sequel to his See also:Scoria dell' antica legislazione del Piemonte, published in 1833 . Among his other writings we may mention the following: Ricerche sui Longobardi in Italia (1827), Delle relazioni politicize fra la dinastia di Savoia e it governo Britannico dal 1240 at 1815 (1853), Rimembranze sul See also:Conte di See also:Cavour (1876), and Considerazioni storiche sulle aniiche assemblee rappresenlative del Piemonte e della Savoia (1878) . See E . Ricotti, Notizia biografica di F .

Sclopis; A . Manno, Bibliografia degli scritti di F . Sclopis; M . See also:

Ricci, Necrologia di F . Sclopis (in the Archivio storico Italiano, See also:ser. iv. torn. ii. p . 331 seq.) .

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