biography
pronunciation:
[seealohyah]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1933)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and jurist, born in Turin, Piedmont, NW Italy. The son of Antonio Scialoja, he specialized in Roman law, then became a senator in 1904 and held a number of ministerial posts. He showed a firm hand as foreign affairs minister (1919–20) during the crisis engendered by d'Annunzio's Fiume venture, and was Italy's representative at the 1919–20 peace conference and at the League of Nations (1921–32). He founded the Istituto di Diritto Romano (Roman Law Institute). |
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