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Cavour (other)
Cavour usually refers to Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810–1861), Italian politician who was a leading figure in the unification of Italy and became Italy's first Prime Minister. It may also refer to: Places Italy * Cavour, Piedmont * Cavour (Rome Metro) * Ponte Cavour, a bridge in Rome * Via Cavour (other), a street in Rome and Florence United States * Cavour, South Dakota * Cavour, Wisconsin * Louis Cavour Ships * Italian aircraft carrier Cavour (550), Italian aircraft carrier ''Cavour'' (550) * Italian battleship Conte di Cavour, Italian battleship ''Conte di Cavour'' Other uses * Liceo classico Cavour, a school in Turin * Cavor, a character in the novel ''The First Men in the Moon'' {{disambiguation, geo, ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour
Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (, 10 August 1810 – 6 June 1861), generally known as Cavour ( , ), was an Italian politician, businessman, economist and noble, and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification. He was one of the leaders of the Historical Right and prime minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont–Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy. After the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, Cavour took office as the first prime minister of Italy; he died after only three months in office and did not live to see the Roman Question solved through the complete unification of the country after the Capture of Rome in 1870. Cavour put forth several economic reforms in his native region of Piedmont, at that time part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, in his earlier years and founded the politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
