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ZANARDELLI, GIUSEPPE (1826—1903)
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See also:ZANARDELLI, GIUSEPPE (1826—1903) , See also:Italian jurisconsult and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Brescia on the 29th of See also:October 1826. A combatant in the volunteer See also:corps during the See also:war of 1848, he returned to Brescia after the defeat of See also:Novara, and for a See also:time earned a livelihood by teaching See also:law, but was molested by the See also:Austrian See also:police and forbidden to See also:teach .in consequence of his refusal to contribute See also:pro-Austrian articles to the See also:press. Elected See also:deputy in 1859, he received various administrative appointments, but only attained a See also:political See also:office in 1876 when the See also:Left, of which he had been a prominent and influential member, came into See also:power. See also:Minister of public See also:works in the first See also:Depretis See also:cabinet of 1876, and minister of the interior in the See also:Cairoli cabinet of 1878, he in the latter capacity drafted the See also:franchise reform, but created dissatisfaction by the indecision of his administrative acts, particularly in regard to the Irredentist agitation, and by his theory of repressing and not in any way preventing See also:crime, which led for a time to a perfect epidemic of murders. Overthrown with Cairoli in See also:December 1878, he returned to power as minister of See also:justice in the Depretis cabinet of 1881, and succeeded in completing the commercial See also:code. Abandoned by Depretis in 1883, he remained in opposition until 1887, when he again joined Depretis as minister of justice, retaining his See also:portfolio throughout the ensuing See also:Crispi ministry_ until the 31st of See also:January 1891. During this See also:period he promulgated the Criminal Code, and began the reform of the magistracy. After the fall of the See also:Giolitti cabinet in 1893, Zanardelli made a strenuous but unsuccessful See also:attempt to See also:form an See also:administration. Elected See also:president of the chamber in 1894 and 1896, he exercised that office with ability until, in December 1897, he accepted the portfolio of justice in the Rudini cabinet, only to resign in the following See also:spring on See also:account of dissensions with his colleague, See also:Visconti-Venosta, over the See also:measures necessary to prevent a recurrence of the tumults of May 1898. Returning to the See also:presidency of the chamber, he again abandoned his See also:post in See also:order to See also:associate himself with the obstructionist See also:campaign against the Public Safety See also:Bill (1899—1900), and was rewarded by being enabled to form an administration with the support of the Extreme Left upon the fall of the See also:Saracco cabinet in See also:February 1901. He was unable to achieve much during his last See also:term of office, as his ,See also:health was greatly impaired; his See also:Divorce Bill, although voted in the chamber, had to be with-See also:drawn on account of the strong opposition of the See also:country. He retired from the administration on the 2nd of See also:November 1903, and died on the 2 1st of December following. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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