Giacomo Durando

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Giacomo Durando

Giacomo Durando (born February 4, 1807 in Mondovì ; † August 21, 1894 in Rome ) was an Italian general and statesman.

He studied law in Turin and turned to law. With Anfossi, Brofferio and others involved in a political plot, he fled to Switzerland in 1831 , then to Belgium via France . Here he and his brother Giovanni joined the Foreign Legion of Achille Murat , fought against Dom Miguel in Portugal from 1832 with great honors and went with his brother to Spain in 1835 to fight the Carlist .

Promoted to colonel, he remained on the Pyrenean Peninsula until 1843 . As a fruit of his stay there, he published the text "De la réunion de la péninsule ibérique par une alliance entre les dynasties d'Espagne et de Portugal" (Marseille 1844).

When he returned to Piedmont soon afterwards, the Mondovì police directed him to stay. There he wrote the text "Della nazionalità italiana" (Paris 1846), which so vividly laid out the idea of ​​a uniform design of Italy under a constitutional regime that it found acceptance in all circles and saw seven editions in a few weeks.

Admittedly, the author, who had gone to Paris to edit it, closed his home soil for the time being. Only when the Italian movement began in 1847 did Durando return to Piedmont, where he worked on the newly founded journal "L'Opinione" and, along with Eavour , Santa Rosa and Brofferio, presented King Albert with the request for a constitution.

In 1848 he led the volunteer corps in northern Lombardy as lieutenant general and was adjutant to King Karl Albert in the battle of Novara . Under Victor Emmanuel II. Held Durando faithful to the national party, joined Cavour and took over as Lamarmora with the Piedmontese auxiliary corps to the Crimea pulled, 31 May 1855 , the War Department, had, however, after the end of the campaign, La Marmora again make way . Sardinian ambassador to Constantinople since 1856 , he knew how to move the gate to an advantageous treaty with Italy in 1861, which also included the recognition of the kingdom.

In the Rattazzi cabinet (from March to December 1862) he administered the foreign ministry. Senator of the Kingdom since 1860, he was appointed General of the Army and President of the Supreme Military Court in 1861. In 1884 he became President of the Senate.