biography
| name: |
Ricasoli, Bettino, Baron
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pronunciation:
[rikasolee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1809–80)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and prime minister (1861–2, 1866–7), born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. An enlightened land-owner, in 1847 he helped publish the daily Patria. He was Tuscany's interior minister (1859) and organized the plebiscite for annexation to Piedmont (1860). He was a deputy in the new Italian parliament (1861), and as prime minister (1861–2) gave the state a strictly centralized structure. Elected prime minister again in 1866, he was defeated the following year after Italy's lacklustre performance in the 3rd Independence War, and resigned. |
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