Federico Seismit-Doda

Federico Seismit-Doda

Federico Seismit-Doda

Federico Seismit-Doda (born October 1, 1825 in Ragusa (Dubrovnik) , † May 8, 1893 in Rome ) was an Italian statesman.

Career

He spent his youth in Venice and studied law in Padua , where he also studied poetry and literature . At the end of 1847 he was arrested along with other students and interned in Trieste , but escaped after the outbreak of the Venetian Revolution of 1848 and took part in the battles of Vicenza and Treviso . In 1849 he edited a newspaper in Florence , then went to Rome at the time of the republic , fled to Greece after its defeat and later to Piedmont . In Turin he published: “I volontarii italiani”, “Romanzi dell apos; esilio ” and since 1857 was the general agent of a large insurance company.

In 1865 he was elected for Comacchio in the Italian Chamber of Deputies , in which he belonged to the party of the left and mainly dealt with financial issues; since 1882 he represented the first constituency of Udine . In 1876 Seismit-Doda was appointed General Secretary in the Ministry of Finance in the first cabinet of Agostino Depretis , but resigned from this office in November 1877 when Giuseppe Zanardelli left the Ministry. Under Benedetto Cairoli he was finance minister from March to December 1878 and drafted a plan to abolish the meal tax. In March 1889 he was reappointed finance minister under Francesco Crispi , but was dismissed in September 1890 after receiving irredentist salutations from a banquet in Udine without objection.

source

• Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . Publishing house of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892.