biography
pronunciation:
[salandra]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1853–1931)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, prime minister (1914–16), and jurist, born in Troia, Puglia, SE Italy. A deputy from 1886, he held various ministerial posts including agriculture (1899), treasury (1906), and finance (1909), and became prime minister in 1914. When World War 1 erupted he tried to gain territorial concessions from the Austro-Hungarians in exchange for Italy's neutrality. When that failed, he negotiated Italy's participation alongside France and Britain (London Pact, 1915). He resigned in 1916. After the war he represented Italy in the Society of Nations, but showed an ambiguous attitude towards Fascism. |
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