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MINGHETTI, MARCO (1818-1886)

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MINGHETTI, MARCO (1818-1886) , See also:Italian economist and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Bologna on the 18th of See also:November 1818. In 1846 he signed the See also:petition to the See also:Conclave for the See also:election of a Liberal See also:pope, and was appointed member of the See also:state See also:council summoned to prepare the constitution for the papal states. With See also:Antonio Montanari and Rodolfo Audinot he founded at Bologna a See also:paper, Il Felsineo. In the first constitutional See also:cabinet, presided over by See also:Cardinal See also:Antonelli, Minghetti held the See also:portfolio of public See also:works, but after the See also:allocution by See also:Pius IX. against the Italian See also:war of See also:independence he resigned, and joined the Piedmontese See also:army as See also:captain on the See also:general See also:staff. Returning to See also:Rome in See also:September 1848, he refused to See also:form a cabinet after the assassination of Pellegrino See also:Rossi, and spent the next eight years in study and travel. Summoned to See also:Paris by See also:Cavour in 1856 to prepare the memorandum on the Romagna provinces for the Paris See also:congress, he was in 1859 appointed by Cavour secretary-general of the Piedmontese See also:Foreign See also:Office. In the same See also:year he was elected See also:president of the See also:assembly of the Romagna after the rejection of pontifical See also:rule by those provinces, and prepared their See also:annexation to See also:Piedmont. Appointed Piedmontese See also:minister of the interior, he resigned office shortly after Cavour's See also:death, but was subsequently chosen to be minister of See also:finance by See also:Farini, whom he succeeded as premier in 1863. With the help of See also:Visconti-Venosta he concluded (See also:Sept. 15, 1864) the " September See also:Convention " with See also:France, whereby See also:Napoleon agreed to evacuate Rome, and See also:Italy to See also:transfer her See also:capital from See also:Turin to See also:Florence. The convention excited violent opposition at Turin, in consequence of which Minghetti was obliged to resign office. He took little See also:part in public See also:life until 1869, when he accepted the portfolio of See also:agriculture in the See also:Menabrea Cabinet.

Both in and out of office he exercised his See also:

influence against an Italo-See also:French See also:alliance and for an immediateadvance upon Rome, and in 187o was sent to See also:London and See also:Vienna by the See also:Lanza-See also:Sella Cabinet to organize a See also:league of neutral See also:powers on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1873 he overthrew the Lanza-Sella Cabinet and regained the premier-See also:ship, which, with the portfolio of finance, he held until the fall of the Right from See also:power on the 18th of See also:March 1876. During his premiership he inaugurated the rapprochement between Italy, See also:Austria and See also:Germany, and reformed the See also:naval and military See also:administration; and before his fall he was able, as finance minister, to announce the restoration of See also:equilibrium between See also:expenditure and See also:revenue for the first See also:time since 186o. After the See also:advent of the See also:Left, Minghetti remained for some years in Opposition, but towards 1884 joined See also:Depretis in creating the " Trasformismo," which consisted in bringing Conservative support to Liberal cabinets. Minghetti, however, See also:drew from it no See also:personal See also:advantage, and died at Rome on the loth of See also:December 1886 without having returned to power. His writings include: Della economia pubblica e delle See also:sue attinenze See also:con la morale e See also:col diritto (Bologna, 1859), and La Chiesa e to Stato (See also:Milan, 1878).

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