Giuseppe Pasolini (7 February 1815 in

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– 4 December 1876) was an

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politician. He initially served as a councilor of the Papal States and advised the pope to name

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as leader of the Council in Rome. After Rossi's assassination, he negotiated with

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, but left Rome for Tuscany by 1849. In 1860, he was named a Senator in the Kingdom of Italy. From 1862 to 1863, he was minister of foreign affairs of the

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. In 1866, he was appointed the royal commissioner of Venice. In 1876, he was appointed President of the Senate, with both the endorsement by the Pope and Minghetti, but soon fell ill and retired.Memoir of Count Giuseppe Pasolini. He was a recipient of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus.
Memoir of Count Giuseppe Pasolini
was compiled by his son was published by his son Count Pier Desiderio Pasolini dall'Onda, and published in 1885 in English with a translation by the Dowager Countess of Dalhousie.

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1815 births 1876 deaths People from Ravenna Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Sardinia 19th-century Italian politicians Recipients of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus {{Italy-politician-stub