Federico Seismit-Doda

Federico Seismit - Doda ( born October 1, 1825 Ragusa ( Dubrovnik), † 8 May 1893 in Rome ) was an Italian statesman.

He spent his early youth in Venice and studied law in Padua, where he vividly dealt with poetry and literature. He was arrested late in 1847 with other students and interned in Trieste, but escaped after the outbreak of the Venetian Revolution of 1848 and participated in the battles of Vicenza and Treviso. In 1849 he edited a newspaper in Florence, then went to Rome during the Republic, fled after their defeat to Greece and later to Piedmont. In Turin he published: " I volontarii italiani ", " Romanzi dell apos; esilio " and was since 1857 a general agent of a large insurance company.

In 1865 he was elected for Comacchio in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, in which he belonged to the party of the left and mainly dealt with financial matters; since 1882, he represents the first constituency of Udine. 1876 ​​Seismit - Doda was appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance in the first cabinet Depretis, but put this office in November 1877 upon exit Zanardellis from the Ministry down. Under Cairoli, he was Minister of Finance from March to December 1878 and outlined a plan for the abolition of Milling Tax. In March 1889 he was appointed again to the Treasury under Crispi, but had to take his dismissal in September, 1890, after he had received from a banquet in Udine tactless irredentist styling without contradiction.

Source

• Meyers Lexicon. Published by the Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig and Vienna, Fourth Edition, 1885-1892.

• Minister of Finance (Italy )
• Member of the Chamber of Deputies ( Italy)
• Italian
• Born in 1825
• Died in 1893
• Man