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See also:LANZA, DOMENICO GIOVANNI GIUSEPPE MARIA (1810–1882) , See also:Italian politician, was See also:born at Casale, See also:Piedmont, on the 15th of See also:February 181o. He studied See also:medicine at See also:Turin, and practised for some years in his native See also:place. He was one of the promoters of the agrarian association in Turin, and took an active See also:part in the rising of 1848. He was elected to the Piedmontese See also:parliament in that See also:year, and attached himself to the party of See also:Cavour, devoting his See also:attention chiefly to questions of See also:economy and See also:finance. He became See also:minister of public instruction in 1855 in the See also:cabinet of Cavour, and in 1858 minister of finance. He followed Cavour into his temporary retirement in See also:July 1859 after the See also:peace of Villafranca, and for a year (186o–1861) was See also:president of the Chamber. He was minister of the interior (1864–1865) in the La See also:Marmora cabinet, and arranged the transference of the See also:capital to See also:Florence. He maintained a resolute opposition to the See also:financial policy of See also:Menabrea, who resigned when Lanza was a second See also:time elected, in 1869, president of the Chamber. Lanza formed a new cabinet in which he was himself minister of the interior. With Quintino See also:Sella as minister of finance he sought to reorganize Italian finance, and resigned See also:office when Sella's projects were rejected in 1873. His cabinet had seen the accomplishment of Italian unity and the See also:installation of an Italian See also:government in See also:Rome. He died in Rome on the 9th of See also: See Enrico Tavallini, La Vita ed i tempi di Giovanni Lanza (2 vols., Turin and See also:Naples, 1887). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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