biography
| name: |
Zanardelli, Giuseppe
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pronunciation:
[tsanah(r)daylee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1826–1903)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, prime minister (1901–3), and jurist, born in Brescia, Lombardy, N Italy. He was one of the instigators of the anti-Austrian rising of 1848 in Brescia, and fought in the first Italian Independence War as a volunteer. He became a deputy in the new Italian parliament (1860) and was public works minister (1876–7). Three times justice minister (1878, 1881–3, 1887–91), in 1890 he issued a new penal code which abolished the death penalty and partially recognized the right to strike. As president of the Chamber (1892–4, 1897–9) he opposed Crispi's colonial policy, and in 1901 became prime minister. |
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