Cabinet Cavour IV

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The Cavour IV cabinet ruled Italy from March 23, 1861 to June 12, 1861. Before that, the Cavour III cabinet , then the Ricasoli I 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.

The Cavour IV cabinet is often seen as the first government of the Italian nation-state that emerged in the Risorgimento . Victor Emmanuel II received the title “King of Italy” by a law of March 17, 1861, at a time when the Cavour III cabinet was still in office. The name of the cabinet indicates that the Italian national state was created through an expansion and renaming of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (with the capital Turin ).

Cavour's government began to transfer the centralized system of government of Sardinia-Piedmont, which was created on the Napoleonic model, to the adjoining areas, although the social and cultural prerequisites for Cavour's administrative reforms were not given, especially in southern Italy. In the new provinces , the prefects, as governors of the government in Turin, often acted with great severity, which was soon felt like foreign rule by the local population. Cavour's companion Marco Minghetti in particular had a different, decentralized state structure in mind, but was unable to assert himself with it.

Prime Minister Cavour died completely unexpectedly on June 6, 1861. As a result, the cabinet resigned a few days later.

minister

Earl of Cavour
Ministries Surname
Prime Minister Camillo Benso by Cavour
Exterior Camillo Benso by Cavour
Interior Marco Minghetti
Justice and Church Affairs Giovanni Battista Cassini's
war Manfredo Fanti
marine Camillo Benso by Cavour
Finances Francesco Saverio Vegezzi (until April 3, 1861)
Pietro Bastogi (from April 3, 1861)
Agriculture, Industry and Commerce Giuseppe Natoli
Public Works Ubaldino Peruzzi
education Francesco de Sanctis
Without business area Vincenzo Niutta

Web links

literature

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