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QUINTINO See also:SELLA (1827-1884)
, See also:Italian statesman and financier, was See also:born at Mosso, near See also:Biella, on the 7th of See also:July 1827
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After studying See also:engineering at See also:Turin, he was sent in 1843 to study See also:mineralogy at the Parisian school of mines
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In See also:Paris he witnessed the revolution of 1848, and only returned to Turin in 1852, when he taught applied See also:geometry at the technical See also:institute
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In 1853 be became See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the university, and in 186o professor of mineralogy in the school of applied engineering
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In 186o he was elected See also:deputy for Cossato
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A See also:year later he was selected to be secretary-See also:general of public instruction, and in 1862 received from Rattazzi the See also:portfolio of See also:finance
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The Rattazzi See also:cabinet See also:fell before See also:Sella could efficaciously provide for the deficit of 17,500,000 with which he was confronted; but in 1864 he returned to the See also:ministry of finance in the La See also:Marmora cabinet, and dealt energetically with the deficit of £8,000,000 then existing
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Persuading the See also: After the failure of an See also:attempt to See also:form a cabinet in May 1881 he practically retired from public See also:life, devoting himself to his studies and his See also:linen factory . His Discorsi parlamentari were published (5 vols., 1887–189o) by See also:order of the Chamber of Deputies . An See also:account of his life and his scientific labours was given by A . See also:Cossa in the Proceedings of the Accademia dei Lincei (1884-1885) . |
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