Gino, Marquess Capponi

Gino, Marquess Capponi (born Sept. 13, 1792, Florence [Italy]—died Feb. 3, 1876, Florence) was a historian, statesman, and leader of liberalism in Tuscany who played an extremely influential role in the rise of the Risorgimento. His salon in Florence was long a centre for the leading liberal thinkers of Europe. Capponi founded two periodicals, L’Antologia (1821; “Anthology”), which was modeled after the Edinburgh Review, and Archivio storico italiano (1839; “Italian Historical Review”). Although he was...