biography
| name: |
Farini, Luigi Carlo
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pronunciation:
[fareenee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1812–66)
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| biography:
| Italian politician, prime minister (1862–3), and historian, born in Russi, E Italy. He took part in the 1831 Romagna risings and then served in the Papal States' first constitutional government. After the Roman Republic's fall, he escaped to Piedmont, where he became education minister (1851–2). He organized the plebiscite that ratified Emilia's annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia, and became interior minister (1860) and prime minister (1862–3). |
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