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Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta
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Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta

Italian statesman
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Born:
Jan. 22, 1829, Milan [now in Italy]
Died:
Nov. 24, 1914, Rome (aged 85)

Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta (born Jan. 22, 1829, Milan [now in Italy]—died Nov. 24, 1914, Rome) was an Italian statesman whose political-diplomatic career of more than 50 years spanned Italian history from the Risorgimento to the power politics of World War I. A youthful participant in the revolutionary movement against Austrian rule that began in 1848, Visconti-Venosta was forced in 1859 to flee to Piedmont; he served the government there in a diplomatic capacity during the War of Italian Independence (1859–60) that unified most of Italy under the Piedmont–Savoy dynasty. By 1863 he had become minister of foreign affairs of the ...(100 of 360 words)

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