Cabinet Cavour III

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The Cavour III cabinet ruled the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Italy, which emerged from it on March 17, 1861, from January 21, 1860 to March 23, 1861. Before that, the Cavour II cabinet ruled , then the Cavour IV cabinet . The government of Prime Minister Camillo Benso von Cavour was supported in parliament by the so-called “historical right” (destra storica) and by independents.

After the Second War of Independence in 1859 , which initially brought Lombardy to Sardinia-Piedmont , Giuseppe Garibaldi began the procession of a thousand with his volunteer comrades in early May 1860 . The goal was the liberation of southern Italy from the Bourbons and the unification of Italy . When it became apparent in September 1860 that Garibaldi would succeed, the Piedmontese government sent troops south to prevent a republican turn of the unification. Cavour succeeded in bringing the unification process politically under control and securing rule for the House of Savoy .

The fact that the agreement was legally a simple territorial expansion of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (and ultimately its renaming to the Kingdom of Italy) is clearly documented by the seamless continuation of the cabinet numbering and the numbering of the legislative periods of the parliament and also the fact that King Victor Emmanuel II did not find it necessary to change the numbering of his name. The constitution of 1848 remained in force and the capital remained in Turin until 1865 .

The Cavour III cabinet was the last government of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont. After the parliamentary elections of January 27, 1861 (with runoff elections on February 3, 1861 in the constituencies), Law No. 4671 of March 17, 1861 declared Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy. Due to the new political situation, Cavour and his cabinet resigned on March 23, 1861, but was again charged with forming a government because of the parliamentary elections he had won. Although the Cavour IV cabinet is often seen as the first government of unified Italy, the previous cabinet was in fact in existence for the first few days after the enlarged kingdom was renamed.

minister

Earl of Cavour
Ministries Surname
Prime Minister Camillo Benso by Cavour
Exterior Camillo Benso by Cavour
Interior Camillo Benso von Cavour (until March 23, 1860)
Luigi Carlo Farini (until September 28, 1860)
Marco Minghetti (until March 23, 1861)
Justice and Church Affairs Giovanni Battista Cassini's
war Manfredo Fanti
marine Camillo Benso by Cavour
Finances Francesco Saverio Vegezzi
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Tommaso Corsi (July 5, 1860 to March 23, 1861)
Public Works Stefano Jacini (until February 14, 1861)
Ubaldino Peruzzi (until March 23, 1861)
education Terenzio Mamiani
Without business area Tommaso Corsi (until July 5, 1860)

Web links

literature

  • Denis Mack Smith: Modern Italy. A political history. New Haven / London 1997.