Costantino Nigra

Count Costantino Nigra (born June 11, 1828 in Villa Castelnuovo , † July 1, 1907 in Rapallo ) was an Italian diplomat and statesman.

Life

Costantino Nigra was born near Ivrea in 1828 , studied law in Turin and joined the army as a volunteer in 1848. Seriously wounded at Rivoli , he embarked on a diplomatic career and was employed by Massimo d'Azeglio in the Sardinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As secretary he accompanied Camillo Benso di Cavour in 1855 on the king's visits to Paris and London and as head of the legation office in 1856 to the peace conferences in Paris. He remained until 1876 in Paris, first as charge d'affaires and then as minister plenipotentiary to the French government. There he represented Italian interests until the fall of the empire and was one of the confidants of the imperial court and was particularly considered a favorite of the empress. Even under the republic he stayed in Paris and was only transferred to Saint Petersburg in 1876 after the fall of the Minghetti government , to London in 1882 and to Vienna in 1885 . Raised a count in 1882 and a senator in December 1890 , he retired in 1904.

Publications

Nigra made himself known literarily through writings on Italian dialects and folk poetry.

Canti popolari del Piemonte . Turin 1888
Glossae hibernicae veteres from the Turin manuscript. Paris 1869

Web links

Commons : Costantino Nigra - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry in the DBI on treccani.it
Literature by and about Costantino Nigra in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Nigra, Costantino . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 12, p. 365.
↑ Nigra, Costantino . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 689 .

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Italian ambassador in Paris 1861–1876	Enrico Cialdini
Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani	Italian ambassador to Saint Petersburg 1876–1882	Giuseppe Greppi
Carlo Felice Nicolis di Robilant	Italian ambassador to London 1882–1885	Luigi Córti
Carlo Felice Nicolis di Robilant	Italian ambassador in Vienna 1885–1904	Giuseppe Avarna di Gualtieri

personal data
SURNAME	Nigra, Costantino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian diplomat and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Villa Castelnuovo
DATE OF DEATH	July 1, 1907
Place of death	Rapallo

[1] Nigra, Costantino . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 12, p. 365.

[2] Nigra, Costantino . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 14, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, p. 689 .