Giacomo Durando

Giacomo Durando ( born February 4, 1807 in Mondovi, † August 21, 1894 in Rome ) was an Italian general and statesman.

He studied law in Turin and turned to the legal profession to. With Anfossi, Brofferio among others participants in a political conspiracy, he fled in 1831 in Switzerland, then through France to Belgium. Here he came, and his brother John in the Foreign Legion of Achille Murat a, fought since 1832 in Portugal against Dom Miguel with great distinction and went with his brother in 1835 to Spain to fight against the Carlists.

For Colonel moved up, he remained on the Iberian Peninsula until 1843. As a fruit of his stay there, he published the magazine " De la reunion de la péninsule ibérique par une alliance entre les dynasties d' Espagne et de Portugal " (Marseille, 1844 ).

When he soon afterwards returned to Piedmont, he was instructed by the police as a Mondovi residence. There he authored the publication " Della nazionalità italiana " (Paris 1846), which so graphically expounded the idea of ​​a uniform format of Italy under a constitutional rule that it was included in all circles and in a few weeks experienced seven editions.

The author, who had gone to surrender to Paris, the same course for the first locked the native soil. Only at the beginning of the Italian movement 1847 Durando returned to Piedmont back, was an employee of the journal " L' Opinione " newly founded and presented with Eavour, Santa Rosa and Brofferio the King Albert the application for a constitution.

In 1848 he led as a lieutenant general the volunteer corps in the north of Lombardy and was in the battle of Novara adjutant of King Charles Albert. Under Victor Emmanuel II Durando remained loyal to the national party, followed on Cavour and took over as Lamarmora moved to the Piedmont auxiliary corps to the Crimea 31 May 1855, the War Department had, however, after the end of the campaign, La Marmora again make room. Since 1856 Sardinian ambassador in Constantinople Opel, he knew the gate in 1861 to move to an advantageous treaty with Italy, which also closed the recognition of the kingdom in itself.

In the cabinet Rattazzi ( from March to December 1862 ), he managed the Foreign Ministry. Since 1860, Senator of the Kingdom, he was in 1861 appointed General of the Army and President of the Supreme Military Court. In 1884, he became President of the Senate.

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  • Politicians ( Kingdom of Italy )
  • General ( Kingdom of Italy )
  • Italian diplomat
  • Ambassador in the Ottoman Empire
  • Italian
  • Born in 1807
  • Died in 1894
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