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RUDINL, See also:ANTONIO STARABBA, See also:MARQUIS DI (1839–19c8) , See also:Italian statesman, was See also:born at See also:Palermo on the 6th of See also:April 1839. In 1859 he joined the revolutionary See also:committee which paved the way for See also:Garibaldi's triumphs in the following See also:year; then after spending a See also:short See also:time at See also:Turin as attache to the Italian See also:foreign See also:office he was elected See also:mayor of Palermo. In r866 he displayed considerable See also:personal courage and See also:energy in quelling an insurrection of separatist and reactionary tendencies. The See also:prestige thus acquired led to his See also:appointment as See also:prefect of Palermo, and while occupying that position he put down See also:brigandage throughout the See also:province; in 1868 he was prefect of See also:Naples. In See also:October 1869 he became See also:minister of the interior in the See also:Menabrea See also:cabinet, but he See also:fell with that cabinet a few months later, and although elected member of See also:parliament for Canicatti held no important position until, upon the See also:death of See also:Minghetti in 1886, he became See also:leader of the Right. See also:Early in 1891 he succeeded See also:Crispi as premier and minister of foreign affairs by forming a See also:coalition cabinet with a See also:part of the See also:Left under See also:Nicotera; his See also:administration proved vacillating, but it initiated the economies by which Italian finances were put on a See also:sound basis and also renewed the Triple See also:Alliance. He was overthrown in May 1892 by a See also:vote of the Chamber and succeeded by See also:Giolitti. Upon the return of his See also:rival, Crispi, to See also:power in See also:December 1893, he resumed See also:political activity, allying himself with the See also:Radical leader, See also:Cavallotti. The crisis consequent upon the disaster of See also:Adowa (1st See also:March 1896) enabled Rudini to return to power as premier and minister of the interior in a cabinet formed by the See also:veteran Conservative, See also:General Ricotti. He concluded See also:peace with See also:Abyssinia, but endangered relations with See also:Great See also:Britain by the unauthorized publication of confidential See also:diplomatic See also:correspondence in a See also:Green-See also:book on Abyssinian affairs. To satisfy the See also:anti-colonial party he ceded See also:Kassala to Great Britain, provoking thereby much indignation in See also:Italy. His See also:internal policy was marked by continual yielding to Radical pressure and by persecution of Crispi.

By dissolving the Chamber early in 1897 and favouring Radical candidates in the general See also:

election, he paved the way for the outbreak of May 1898, the suppression of which entailed considerable bloodshed and necessitated a See also:state of See also:siege at See also:Milan, Naples, See also:Florence and See also:Leghorn. Indignation at the results of his policy led to his overthrow in See also:June 1898. During his second See also:term of office he thrice modified his cabinet (See also:July 1896, December 1897, and May 1898) without strengthening his political position. In many respects Rudini, though leader of the Right and nominally a Conservative politician, proved a dissolving See also:element in the Italian Conservative ranks. By his alliance with the Liberals under Nicotera in 1891, and by his understanding with the Radicals under Cavallotti in 1894–98; by abandoning his Conservative colleague, General Ricotti, to whom he owed the premiership in 1896; and by his vacillating See also:action after his fall from power, he divided and demoralized a constitutional party which, with greatersincerity and less reliance upon political cleverness, he might have welded into a solid See also:parliamentary organization. At the same time he was a thorough See also:gentleman and See also:grand seigneur. One of the largest and wealthiest landowners in See also:Sicily, he managed his estates on liberal lines, and was never troubled by agrarian disturbances. The marquis, who had not been in office since 1898, died on the 6th of See also:August 1908, leaving a son, Carlo, who married a daughter of Mr See also:Henry Labouchere.

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