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BRIN, BENEDETTO (1833—1898)

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BRIN, BENEDETTO (1833—1898) , See also:Italian See also:naval See also:administrator, was See also:born at See also:Turin on the 17th of May 1833, and until the See also:age of See also:forty worked with distinction as a naval engineer. In 1873 See also:Admiral See also:Saint-Bon, See also:minister of marine, appointed him under-secretary of See also:state. The two men completed each other; Saint-Bon conceived a type of See also:ship, Brin made the plans and directed its construction. On the See also:advent of the See also:Left to See also:power in 1876, Brin was appointed minister of marine by See also:Depretis, a capacity in which he continued the See also:programme of Saint-Bon, while enlarging and completing it in such way as to See also:form the first organic See also:scheme for the development of the Italian See also:fleet. The huge warships " Italia " and " See also:Dandolo " were his See also:work, though he afterwards abandoned their type in favour of smaller and faster vessels of the " See also:Varese " and the " See also:Garibaldi " class. By his initiative Italian naval See also:industry, almost non-existent in 1893, made rapid progress. During his eleven years' See also:ministry (1876—1878 with Depretis, 1884—1891 with Depretis and See also:Crispi, 1896-1898 with Rudini), he succeeded in creating large private ship-yards, See also:engine See also:works and metallurgical works for the See also:production of See also:armour, See also:steel plates and guns. In 1892 he entered the See also:Giolitti See also:cabinet as minister for See also:foreign affairs, accompanying, in that capacity, the See also:king and See also:queen of See also:Italy to See also:Potsdam, but showed weakness towards See also:France on the occasion of the See also:massacre of Italian workmen at Aigues-Mortes. He died on the 24th of May 1898, while minister of marine in the Rudini cabinet. He, more than any other See also:man, must be regarded as the See also:practical creator of the Italian See also:navy.

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