Luigi, Count Corti

Luigi, Count Corti (born October 24, 1823, Gambarana, Lombardy [Italy]—died February 19, 1888, Rome, Italy) was a diplomat, minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Benedetto Cairoli (1878–88), and Italian representative at the Congress of Berlin (1878–79), for which he received much criticism, probably undeserved. Corti interrupted his diplomatic career, begun in the Piedmontese service (i.e., that of the kingdom of Sardinia) in 1846, to volunteer in the war between Piedmont and Austria (1848)....