biography
pronunciation:
[bastohjee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1808–98)
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| biography:
| Financier and politician, born in Livorno, Tuscany, W Italy. He funded the Banca Toscana di Credito (Tuscan Credit Bank) and the Società delle Strade Ferrate Meridionali (Southern Railways Company), later to be known as ‘Bastogi’. He was finance minister in 1861–2. |
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