Cesare Alfieri di Sostegno (13 August 1799 – 16 April 1869) was an
Italian
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politician and diplomat. He was
prime minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia from 27 July 1848 to 15 August 1848.
Biography
Born in
Turin
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, the cousin of poet
Vittorio Alfieri
Count Vittorio Alfieri (, also , ; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography.
Early life
Alfieri was ...
, he began his diplomatic career in 1816 in the State Secretary, then he was assigned to the embassy in
Paris
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, where he father was the representative of the
Kingdom of Sardinia
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. Later he worked in the embassies of
The Hague
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and
Berlin
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, and then he took part as assistant in the congresses of
Aachen (1818),
Troppau
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(1820) and
Ljubljana
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During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the are ...
(1821). This experience granted Alfieri the title of ambassador in
St. Petersburg
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in 1824.
Two years later he returned to Turin, where he received the position of First Squire of the throne heir,
Charles Albert
Charles Albert (; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia from 27 April 1831 until 23 March 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, the Albertine Statute, and with the First Italian War of Independenc ...
. In 1838 he was made member of the newly created Council of State and in 1842 of the Agrarian Association of Turin. In 1847 Alfieri became the first holder of the Ministry of Public Instruction. Together with
Luigi Des Ambrois
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Life
Born in Oulx, son of an officer of Sardinian army, in 1828 he graduated in law i ...
and
Giacino Borelli, he was one of the authors of the
Statuto Albertino
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, the first Italian constitution. On 3 April 1848 he was elected Senator, and served as Prime Minister of Sardinia from August to October 1848. He was President of the Senate of Sardinia from 1855 to 1860.
He died in Florence in 1869.
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1799 births
1869 deaths
Diplomats from Turin
Prime ministers of the Kingdom of Sardinia
Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia
Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Sardinia
18th-century Italian politicians
19th-century Italian politicians
Politicians from Turin