Giuseppe La Farina

Giuseppe La Farina.

Giuseppe La Farina (born July 20, 1815 in Messina , † September 5, 1863 in Turin ) was an Italian lawyer , journalist , writer and politician .

Life

After completing his law degree, La Farina worked as a newspaper editor. In 1837 he took part in an uprising against the Bourbons in southern Italy . In the following years he had to flee to Florence and Rome several times because of his liberal views . During these stays he wrote several historical works about Italy . When a revolution broke out in Sicily in January 1848 , he returned to his homeland to support it. He became a member of the Revolutionary Parliament, envoy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Charles Albert of Savoy during the First Italian War of Independence, and finally, until the revolution was suppressed in 1849, Minister . Immediately afterwards, La Farina had to emigrate to France . Gradually he gave up his Republican beliefs and settled in Turin as a journalist . There he supported Cavour's more moderate Italian policy . During Giuseppe Garibaldi's procession of a thousand he tried on behalf of Cavour to move Sicily to join the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont .

After the unification of Italy, La Farina became a member of the State Council and Parliament .

He died in the then Italian capital Turin in 1863.