Marco Minghetti

Marco Minghetti (1862)

Marco Minghetti (born November 18, 1818 in Bologna , † December 10, 1886 in Rome ) was an Italian politician and twice President of the Council of Ministers .

Life

Maro Minghetti came from a family of landowners and received a very in-depth cultural education. He studied literature, science and economics and was on long trips abroad in between.

Minghetti took part in the reform movement that had spread to the Papal States. After the election of Pope Pius IX. he thought an alliance between the Liberals and the Pope was likely.

Between 1842 and 1847 he participated in the drafting of the "Società agraria bolognese" (Agrarian Society of Bologna), also wrote in the newspaper "Il Felsineo" and became editor-in-chief. In November 1847 he became a member of the Consulta di Stato (Council of State) of the first government and resigned on April 19, 1848.

Between 1848 and 1849 he took part in the war of independence in the ranks of the Piedmontese army and then lived on in Bologna during the years of the second restoration. In 1849 he briefly became Minister of Public Works. In 1859, after the popular uprisings and the War of Independence, he became chairman of the Assemblea delle Romagne (Assembly of Romagne). He then became Minister of the Interior with Camillo Benso Graf von Cavour and Bettino Ricasoli , and then Minister of Finance with Luigi Carlo Farini .

In 1857 he founded the "Banca delle quattro legazioni" (Bank of the four Papal States Provinces) and writes papers on the state of the Papal States Provinces that were to be presented to the Congress of Paris. In 1858 he was a member of the "Società nazionale" (National Society) committee in Bologna.

During the Italian unification , he opposed a centralized state structure and for the granting of regional autonomy , which made him a forerunner of modern Italian regionalism . Between March 24, 1863 and September 23, 1864 he was President of the Council of Ministers ( Head of Government) and succeeded Farini .

The Convenzione di Settembre (September Agreement) concluded with France on September 15, 1864 , caused great dissatisfaction at the national level and was the cause of its downfall. In 1870 shortly after the Italian breakthrough in Rome at Porta Pia , he reformed the Accademia dei Lincei with the support of Quintino Sella and Ruggero Bonghi , following the example of the Institut de France .

He was again head of government between July 10, 1873 and March 18, 1876. During this tenure he was not in agreement with the right to which he still belonged. The motivation for this battle was the strict accounting policy that he pursued, which led to the balance of the budget in 1876.

A monument commemorates him on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II .

Fonts

Commons : Marco Minghetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Des rapports de l'économie publique avec la morale et le droit . (1863) in the Google book search
• Della economia pubblica: e delle sue attinenze colla morale e col. diritto . (1868) in the Google Book Search USA
• Stato e chiesa . (1878) in the Google Book Search USA
• I partiti politici e la ingerenza loro nella giustizia e nell 'amministrazione . (1881) in the Google Book Search USA
• L'état et l'église . (1882) in the Google Book Search USA
• Scritti vari . (1896) in the Google Book Search USA
• La convenzione di September: un capitolo dei miei ricordi . (1899) in Google Book Search USA

Web links

• Biography (italian)