QUINTINO See also:

• QUINTINO SELLA (1827-1884)

SELLA (1827-1884)  , See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian statesman and financier, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Mosso, near See also:

• BIELLA

Biella, on the 7th of See also:

• JULY

July 1827 . After studying See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering at See also:

• TURIN

Turin, he was sent in 1843 to study See also:

• MINERALOGY

mineralogy at the Parisian school of mines . In 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 he witnessed the revolution of 1848, and only returned to Turin in 1852, when he taught applied See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry at the technical See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

institute . In 1853 be became See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics at the university, and in 186o professor of mineralogy in the school of applied engineering . In 186o he was elected See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy for Cossato . A See also:

• YEAR

year later he was selected to be secretary-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general of public instruction, and in 1862 received from Rattazzi the See also:

• PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

portfolio of See also:

• FINANCE

finance . The Rattazzi See also:

• CABINET

cabinet See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell before See also:

• SELLA, QUINTINO (1827-1884)

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

ministry of finance in the La See also:

• MARMORA (anc. Proconnesus)
• MARMORA, SEA OF (anc. Propontis; Turk. Mermer Denisi)

Marmora cabinet, and dealt energetically with the deficit of £8,000,000 then existing . Persuading the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king to forgo 120,000 of his See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list, and his colleagues in the cabinet to relinquish See also:

• PART

part of their ministerial stipends, he effected savings amounting to 2,400,000, proposed new See also:

• TAXATION
• TAXATION (from " tax," derived, through the French, from Lat. taxare, to appraise, which again is connected with the same root as tangere, to touch)

taxation to the extent of £1,600,000, and induced landowners to pay one year's See also:

• INSTALMENT (for earlier stallment or estallment, from Fr. estaler, to fix, arrange; the change is probably due to the influence of the verb " install ")

instalment of the See also:

• LAND

land tax in advance . A See also:

• VOTE

vote of the chamber compelled him to resign before his preparations for See also:

• FINANCIAL

financial restoration were See also:

• COMPLETE

complete; but in 1869 he returned to the ministry of finance in a cabinet formed by himself, but of which he made over the premiership to Giovanni See also:

• LANZA, DOMENICO GIOVANNI GIUSEPPE MARIA (1810–1882)

Lanza . By means of the grist tax (which he had proposed in 1865, but which the See also:

• MENABREA, LUIGI FEDERICO

Menabrea cabinet had passed in 1868), and by other fiscal expedients necessitated by the almost desperate See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of the See also:

• NATIONAL

national See also:

• EXCHEQUER

exchequer, he succeeded, before his fall from See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power in 1873, in placing Italian finance upon a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound footing, in spite of fierce attacks and persistent misrepresentation . In 1870 his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence turned the See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale against interference in favour of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France against See also:

• PRUSSIA
• PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

Prussia, and in favour of an immediate occupation of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome . From 1873 until his premature See also:

• DEATH

death on the 14th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1884, he acted as See also:

• LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of the Right, and was more than once prevented by an ephemeral See also:

• COALITION (Lat. coalitio, the verbal substantive of coalescere, to grow together)

coalition of See also:

• PERSONAL

personal opponents from returning to power as See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of a Moderate Conservative cabinet .

After the failure of an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a cabinet in May 1881 he practically retired from public See also:

• LIFE

life, devoting himself to his studies and his See also:

• LINEN

linen factory . His Discorsi parlamentari were published (5 vols., 1887–189o) by See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of the Chamber of Deputies . An See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his life and his scientific labours was given by A . See also:

• COSSA, LUIGI (1831-1896)
• COSSA, PIETRO (183o-188o)

Cossa in the Proceedings of the Accademia dei Lincei (1884-1885) .