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Camillo Benso di Cavour
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Count Camillo Benso Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian nationalist politician, editor of the pro-nationalist Risorgimento from 1847.

Short Biography:

Cavour was born in Turin, and served in the army in early life; he entered politics in 1847.

From 1848 he sat in the Piedmontese parliament, and held cabinet posts 1850-1852. As prime minister, he sought to secure French and British sympathy for the cause of Italian unity by sending Piedmontese troops to fight in the Crimean War.

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Tags: nationalist, minister, monarchy, unification

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