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Luigi, Count Corti

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Born:
October 24, 1823, Gambarana, Lombardy [Italy]
Died:
February 19, 1888, Rome, Italy (aged 64)

Luigi, Count Corti (born October 24, 1823, Gambarana, Lombardy [Italy]—died February 19, 1888, Rome, Italy) was a diplomat, minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Benedetto Cairoli (1878–88), and Italian representative at the Congress of Berlin (1878–79), for which he received much criticism, probably undeserved. Corti interrupted his diplomatic career, begun in the Piedmontese service (i.e., that of the kingdom of Sardinia) in 1846, to volunteer in the war between Piedmont and Austria (1848). After the war he was appointed secretary of the Piedmontese, later Italian, legation in London (1850), where he remained until his appointment as minister in ...(100 of 232 words)

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