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Giovanni Lanza

Italian statesman
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Giovanni Lanza (born Feb. 15, 1810, Casale Monferrato, Piedmont, French empire [now in Italy]—died March 9, 1882, Rome, Italy) was an Italian statesman and political activist of the Risorgimento who was premier in 1870 when Rome became the capital of a united Italy and who helped organize the political forces of the centre-left. After graduating from the University of Turin as a doctor of medicine, Lanza concentrated on agricultural improvement in Piedmont. In 1848 he...

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