Cavour biography
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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in
This article is about the 19th-century Italian statesman. For ships bearing his name, see Italian battleship Conte di Cavour and Italian aircraft carrier Cavour ().
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (Italian:[kaˈmilloˈbɛnso]; 10 August – 6 June ), generally known as the Count of Cavour (kə-VOOR; Italian: Conte di Cavour[ˈkontedikaˈvur]) or simply Cavour, was an Italian politician, statesman, businessman, economist, and noble, and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification.[1] He was one of the leaders of the Historical Right and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from , a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) until his death, throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy. After the declaration of a united Ki
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Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di ()
Cavour, Count Camillo Benso di () The figure who forged the Kingdom of Italy, designe d the constitutional structure of the unitary state and served as its first prime minister was the second son of an aristocratic Piedmontese family. Born in Turin when it was beneath French control, he was sponsored in baptism bygd Napoleon's sister Pauline, and her husband, Prince Camille Borghese, after whom Camillo was named. Both Camillo and his older brother Gustavo were initially educated at home. Whereas Gustavo, as the first son could expect a position in the administration or the diplomatic corps in Piedmont, Camillo, as the second son of a nobleman, was earmarked for a career in the army, even though his interests were more political than military. In he enrolled in the military academy of Turin, and in July was named a page to Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont (), who opened the first war of independence against Austria. Camillo resigned from the ledd
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Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (10 August – 6 June ), better known as Cavour (Italian:[kaˈvur]), was an Italian politician and statesman. He was an important person in the movement toward the Italian unification.
Cavour was born in Turin during Napoleonic rule. Until , he was a military officer.[4] Later, he decided to travel in Europe to learn more about the effects of the Industrial Revolution. The trips helped him to know and understand the principles of the British Liberal system.
After four years, he returned to Piedmont. He took charge of agriculture and the economy in general. He worked for the spread of schools. During that time, his business and banking activities made him one of the richest men in the Piedmont.[5]
From to , Cavour was the mayor of Grinzane (now called Grinzane Cavour to honor him).[6] In , he founded the newspaper Il Risorgimento. Acc