Salvatore Pes di Villamarina

Salvatore Raimondo Gianluigi Pes, marchese di Villamarina, barone dell'Isola Piana (born August 11, 1808 in Cagliari , † May 14, 1877 in Turin ) was an officer , ambassador , prefect and senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and the Kingdom of Italy .

Life

Salvatore Pes di Villamarina came from a Sardinian aristocratic family that over time produced several generals, senators and ministers. His father Emanuele Pes di Villamarina was, among other things, Minister of War and Senator, his great-uncle Giacomo Pes di Villamarina general and viceroy in Sardinia .

Salvatore Pes di Villamarina moved with his parents from Cagliari to Turin at the age of eight, where he attended the Jesuit college and then studied law. After a brief interlude as a lawyer, he completed an apprenticeship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1830 to 1832 and then another training as an officer. As such, he served in the Aosta Cavalleria cavalry regiment and then until 1844 in the War Ministry , which his father directed. Subsequently, Salvatore Pes di Villamarina was secretary of the Council of Ministers and was also entrusted with various diplomatic missions. From 1848 to 1852 he was ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Florence , then to 1859 ambassador to Paris , where he took part in the peace negotiations to end the Crimean War in 1856 and in two follow-up conferences that led, among other things, to the Piedmontese-French alliance in the Sardinian War . For his diplomatic achievements in Paris, he was appointed senator by King Victor Emmanuel II on May 14, 1856 . In the course of the unification of Italy he was briefly governor in Milan in 1859 and then ambassador in Naples until 1861, from where he favored the procession of the thousand and ultimately the connection of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Sardinia-Piedmont and thus Italy. For this he received the Order of Annunciations from the King . In united Italy he served from 1862 to 1868 as prefect in Milan, then as a city councilor in Turin and as a board member of the local clinic and also as chairman of the local veterans' association. In addition, as a senator, he campaigned for the capital to be moved to Rome . When this happened in 1871 and a serious conflict arose with the Pope , he voted against the guarantee law , which was supposed to defuse this conflict.

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SURNAME	Pes di Villamarina, Salvatore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pes, Marchese Di Villamarina, Barone dell'Isola Piana, Salvatore Raimondo Gianluigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Piedmontese officer, ambassador, prefect and senator
DATE OF BIRTH	August 11, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cagliari , Italy
DATE OF DEATH	May 14, 1877
Place of death	Turin , Italy