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NIGRA, COSTANTINO, COUNT (1828-1907)

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NIGRA, COSTANTINO, See also:COUNT (1828-1907) , See also:Italian diplomatist, was See also:born'at See also:Villa Castelnuovo, in the See also:province of See also:Turin, on the 11th of See also:June 1828. During the See also:war of 1848 he interrupted his studies to serve as a volunteer against See also:Austria, and was wounded at the See also:battle of Rivoli. On the conclusion of See also:peace he entered the Piedmontese See also:foreign See also:office; he accompanied See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel and See also:Cavour to See also:Paris and See also:London in 1855, and in the following See also:year he took See also:part in the See also:conference of Paris by which the See also:Crimean War was brought to an end. After the See also:meeting at Plombieres between Cavour and See also:Napoleon III. Nigra was sent to Paris again to popularize a Franco-Piedmontese See also:alliance, Nigra being, as Cavour said, " the only See also:person perhaps who knows all my thoughts, even the most See also:secret." He was instrumental in negotiating the See also:marriage between Victor Emmanuel's daughter Clothilde and Napoleon's See also:nephew, and during the war of 1859 he was always with the See also:emperor. He was recalled from Paris when the occupation of the See also:Marche and See also:Umbria by the Piedmontese caused a See also:breach in Franco-Italian relations, and was appointed secretary of See also:state to the See also:prince of See also:Carignano, See also:viceroy of the Neapolitan provinces. When Napoleon recognized the See also:kingdom of See also:Italy in 1861, Nigra returned to See also:France as See also:minister-See also:resident, and for many years played a most important part in See also:political affairs. In 1876 he was transferred to St See also:Petersburg with the See also:rank of See also:ambassador, in 1882 to London, and in 1885 to See also:Vienna. In 1899 he represented Italy at the first See also:Hague Peace Conference. In 1904 he retired, and he died at See also:Rapallo on the 1st of See also:July 1907. He was created count in 1882 and senator in 189o. Nigra was a See also:sound classical See also:scholar, and published See also:translations of many See also:Greek and Latin poems with valuable comments; he was also a poet and the author of several See also:works of folk-See also:lore and popular See also:poetry, of which the most important is his Canti popolari del Piemonte.

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