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CIBRARIO, LUIGI, COUNT (1802—1870)

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CIBRARIO, See also:LUIGI, See also:COUNT (1802—1870) , See also:Italian statesman and historian, descended from a See also:noble but impoverished Piedmontese See also:family, was See also:born in Usseglia on the 23rd of See also:February 1802. He won a scholarship at the See also:age of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen. His verses to See also:King See also:Charles See also:Albert, then See also:prince of See also:Carignano, on the See also:birth of his son See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel, attracted the prince's See also:attention and proved the beginning of a See also:long intimacy. He entered the Sardinian See also:civil service, and in 1824 was appointed lecturer on See also:canon and civil See also:law. His See also:chief See also:interest was the study of See also:ancient documents, and he was sent to See also:search the archives of See also:Switzerland, See also:France and See also:Germany for charters See also:relating to the See also:history of See also:Savoy. During the See also:war of 1848, after the See also:expulsion of the Austrians from See also:Venice, Cibrario was sent to that See also:city with Colli to negotiate its See also:union with See also:Piedmont. But the proposal See also:fell through when the See also:news of the See also:armistice between King Charles Albert and See also:Austria arrived, and the two delegates were made the See also:objects of a hostile demonstration. In See also:October 1848 Cibrario was made senator, and after the See also:battle of See also:Novara (See also:March 1849), when Charles Albert abdicated and retired to a monastery near See also:Oporto, Cibrario and Count Giacinto di Collegno were sent as representatives of the See also:senate to See also:express the sympathy of that See also:body with the fallen king. He reached Oporto on the 28th of May, and after staying there for a See also:month returned to See also:Turin, which he reached just before the news of Charles Albert's See also:death. In May 1852 he became See also:minister of See also:finance in the reconstructed d'See also:Azeglio See also:cabinet, and later minister of See also:education in that of See also:Cavour. In the same See also:year he was appointed secretary to the See also:order of SS. Maurizio and Lazzaro.

It was he who in 1853 dictated the vigorous memorandum of protest against the See also:

confiscation by Austria of the See also:property of Lombard exiles who had been naturalized in Piedmont. He strongly supported Cavour's See also:Crimean policy (1855), and when See also:General La See also:Marmora departed in command of the expeditionary force and Cavour took the war See also:office, Cibrario was made minister for See also:foreign affairs. He See also:con-ducted the business of the See also:department with See also:great skill, and ably seconded Cavour in bringing about the See also:admission of Piedmont to the See also:congress of See also:Paris on an equal footing with the great See also:powers. On retiring from the foreign office Cibrario was created count. In 186o he acted as mediator between Victor Emmanuel's See also:government and the See also:republic of See also:San See also:Marino, and arranged a treaty by which the latter's liberties were guaranteed. After the war of 1866 by which Austria lost See also:Venetia, Cibrario negotiated with that government for the restitution of See also:state papers and See also:art treasures removed by it from See also:Lombardy and Venetia to See also:Vienna. He died in October 187o, near See also:Sale', on the See also:lake of See also:Garda. His most important See also:work was his Economia politica del medio evo (Turin, 1839), which enjoyed great popularity at the See also:time, but is now of little value. His Schiavitit e servaggio (See also:Milan, 1868-186g) gave an See also:account of the development and abolition of See also:slavery and See also:serfdom. Among his See also:historical writings the following deserve mention:—Delle artiglierie dal 1300 al 1700 (Turin, 1847); Origini . . . . della monarchia di Savoia (Turin, 1854); Degli ordini cavallereschi (Turin, 1846); Degli ordini religiose (Turin, 1845); and the Memorie Segrete of Charles Albert, written by order of Victor Emmanuel but afterwards withdrawn.

Cibrario was a See also:

good example of the loyal, industrious, honest Piedmontese aristocrat of the old school. His See also:biography has been written by F. Odorici, II See also:Conte L. Cibrario (See also:Florence, 1872). (L.

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