biography
pronunciation:
[preena]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1766–1814)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Novara, Piedmont, N Italy. He served as finance minister of the states established by Napoleon in N Italy between 1802 and 1814. Faced with a serious public deficit, he tried to solve it by implementing a number of new taxes. When the regime collapsed, he was lynched by an angry mob. |
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