biography
pronunciation:
[bohngee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1826–95)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and man of letters, born in Naples, Campania, SW Italy. Forced to leave Naples after the 1848 risings, he later became a deputy for the Right in the Italian parliament (1860–5) and was education minister (1874–6). He was also a journalist and historian, founding the La Stampa newspaper and establishing the National Library in Rome. |
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