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Camillo Benso, count di Cavour was a Piedmontese statesman, a conservative whose exploitation of international rivalries and of revolutionary movements brought about the unification of Italy (1861) under the House of Savoy, with himself as the first prime minister of the new kingdom.
As prime minister, Cavour successfully negotiated Piedmont's way through the Crimean War, the Second Italian War of Independence, and Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand, managing to manoeuvre Piedmont diplomatically to become a new great power in Europe, controlling a nearly united Italy that was five times as large as Piedmont had been ...
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When Camillo Cavour was born in Torino, on 10 August 1810 inside his family’s 18th century palace, Piedmont was ruled by the French. At the peak of his imperial rule, Napoleon dominated most of Europe. In just over a decade History had changed its course, on a large scale and also on a small one.
Cavour, a liberal-minded Piedmontese political leader, was an architect of closer Franco-Italian ties and negotiated the Treaty of Turin, which attached Nice and Savoy to France on 24 March 1860. Camillo Benso, Count Cavour, descended from an old Catholic Piedmontese noble family on his father's side; his mother was a Swiss Calvinist.
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Cavour (Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour) was born in Turin, Piedmont, then part of the kingdom of Sardinia, on August 1st, 1810. As a younger son of an aristocratic family it was expected of him that he would seek a career in the army or another gentlemanly profession.
bibliography. CAVOUR, COUNT (CAMILLO BENSO) (1810–1861), first prime minister of Italy. The future first prime minister of Italy and chief architect of its unification was born in Turin on 10 August 1810 to a family of the Piedmontese aristocracy.
