Bernardino Grimaldi

Bernardino Grimaldi

Bernardino Grimaldi (born February 15, 1839 in Catanzaro , † March 16, 1897 in Rome ) was an Italian politician . He served as finance minister several times .

Life

Bernardino Grimaldi came from a Calabrian family. His father Luigi Grimaldi was a lawyer and respected especially in the field of statistics and state economy . Grimaldi studied in Naples the jurisprudence taught since 1863 Constitutional Law in Catanzaro and released a short time later comments about the Neapolitan legislation. After traveling abroad for a long time, he devoted himself to the legal profession on his return home.

After the parliamentary revolution on March 18, 1876, Grimaldi became a member of the Catanzaros deputy in the Camera dei deputati and joined the left. In the first cabinet of Benedetto Cairoli , he was Secretary General in the Ministry of Public Works from 1878. He was able to use the specialist knowledge he had acquired in the nine months of his office to good advantage when, in December 1878, he became the rapporteur for an important law of the left that affected the construction of many railways. His prudent activity in this matter led to his appointment as finance minister in the second Cairolis cabinet on July 17, 1879. But since he opposed the abolition of the grinding tax without the introduction of new taxes, a conflict arose in the cabinet. Thereupon Grimaldi resigned from his post in November 1879. He was even expelled from the budget commission. Grimaldi was one of the group of men on the left on whom Quintino Sella was counting when, in May 1881, after Cairoli's resignation, he was tasked with reorganizing the cabinet and attempting to form a government majority. When Agostino Depretis' cabinet was reorganized in March 1884, Grimaldi took over the agriculture, trade and industry portfolio. He exchanged this for the Ministry of Finance in December 1888, but resigned his office again in March 1889 when the Chamber rejected his financial proposals.

From December 1890 to February 1891 Grimaldi was Minister of Finance for the third time under Francesco Crispi and was succeeded in Luigi Luzzatti . Grimaldi then worked as a lawyer and member of the city council in Rome. After Vittorio Ellena had withdrawn due to illness, Grimaldi took over the Treasury Ministry on July 7, 1892 in the cabinet of Giovanni Giolitti and was temporarily head of the Ministry of Finance. But he handed the latter over to Lazzaro Gagliardo on May 24, 1893 and resigned in December 1893 with the entire Giolitti cabinet.

At the beginning of 1897 Grimaldi was struck by a serious illness and died on March 16 of the same year at the age of 58 in Rome.

literature

• Grimaldi, Bernardino , in Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, 1902-08, vol. 8, p. 339 f.
• Giuseppe Masi:  Grimaldi, Bernardino. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 59:  Graziano – Grossi Gondi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2002.

Web links

• Entry in the Portale storico of the Camera dei deputati