Giovanni Lanza
Giovanni Lanza | |
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Victor Emmanuel II | |
| Preceded by | Luigi Federico Menabrea |
| Succeeded by | Marco Minghetti |
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| Born | 15 February 1810 Casale Monferrato, French Empire |
| Died | 9 March 1882 (aged 72) Rome, Kingdom of Italy |
| Political party | Historical Right |
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Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Lanza (15 February 1810 – 9 March 1882) was an Italian politician and the eighth
prime minister of Italy
from 1869 to 1873.
Biography
Lanza was born in the
Monferrato to introduce such modern equipment as iron ploughs and seed drills, and also involved himself in the agricultural education of poor children, hoping to achieve at once “the betterment of our agriculture and the moral and intellectual betterment of our agricultural workers.”[1]
Lanza was also an active member of the
Risorgimento—was underlined at the September 1847 agrarian congress in Casale, when Lanza raised the cry of "Viva l'Italia libera ed indipendente!" Later he commented on that event: "I did not join the association purely to improve the cultivation of cabbages".[2], [3]
Parliamentary collaboration with Cavour
Lanza took an active part in the
La Marmora cabinet, and arranged the transfer of the capital to Florence. He maintained a resolute opposition to the financial policies of Menabrea, who resigned in 1869 when Lanza was elected for the second time as President of the Chamber.[4]
Prime Minister of Italy
Lanza formed a new cabinet in which he appointed himself minister of the interior. With Quintino Sella as minister of finance, he sought to reorganize the Italian budget and resigned from office when Sella's projects were rejected in 1873.
Legacy in the Unification of Italy
His cabinet had seen the accomplishment of Italian unity and the installation of an Italian government in Rome after the defeat of the Papal States in late 1870.[4]
Notes
- ^ Crosio, Roberto, ed. (2003–2005), "Il ruolo storico dell'Associazione Agraria Subalpina ed i rapporti di Cavour al suo interno", Le vocazioni ambientali del Vercellese e l'opera di Camillo Cavour, archived from the original on 2008-02-20, retrieved 2008-06-24.
- ^ Coaloa, Roberto (2008-05-28), "Lanza e "Viva l'Italia" al Congresso agrario", Il Monferrato, Editrice Monferrato S.r.l., retrieved 2008-06-24[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Il fondatore: Vincenzo Luparia". Istituto tecnico agrario V.Luparia. Archived from the original on 2009-04-24. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lanza, Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 188. Endnote: See Enrico Tavallini, La Vita ed i tempi di Giovanni Lanza (2 vols., Turin and Naples, 1887).
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