Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (16 July 1808 – 12 January 1889) was an Italian statesman who become President of the Senate after Italian unification.

Life

Born in

Trapani Trapani ( , ; scn, Tràpani ; lat, Drepanum; grc, Δρέπανον) is a city and municipality (''comune'') on the west coast of Sicily, in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. Founded by Elymians, the city is still an imp ...

, was Count and Marquis of Torrearsa. He was a protagonist of the Italian ''Risorgimento''. In Sicilian revolution of 1848 was president of

Sicilian Parliament The Sicilian Parliament was the legislature of the Kingdom of Sicily. History The Sicilian Parliament is arguably one of the oldest parliaments in the world and the first legislature in the modern sense. In 1097 came the first conference i ...

. Fardella was then in exile in Turin, London and Nice. In 1860 following the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi's ''Mille'' was minister in the Dictatorship of Garibaldi. In 1861 he was elected Member of Italian Chamber of Deputies and soon after appointed Senator of the Kingdom. In 1870, after the capture of Rome, he was elected president of the

Senate of Italy The Senate of the Republic ( it, Senato della Repubblica), or simply the Senate ( it, Senato), is the upper house of the bicameral Italian Parliament (the other being the Chamber of Deputies). The two houses together form a perfect bicameral s ...

, the first in Palazzo Madama, until 1874.

References

1808 births 1889 deaths People from Trapani Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy Presidents of the Italian Senate Margraves of Italy Members of the Sicilian Parliament 19th-century Italian politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Kingdom of Italy) {{Italy-politician-stub