Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour
Standard Name: Cavour, Camillo Benso,,, Conte di
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death | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The shops surrounding the house closed for mourning, and the newspapers announced the death of the greatest living poet and a fervent supporter of the Italian cause. Her funeral traced the route through the city... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey
(1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke
, Gwen Raverat
, Ka Cox
... |
Health | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
's health had been in decline since 1857, and she was seriously ill this winter. Biographers like Gardner B. Taplin
(in 1957) have directly linked her illness to grief for her sister's death and... |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | In Florence, EBB
began to take an active interest in Italian politics, supporting the cause of democratic reform along with Italian unity and independence from Austria. She came to admire the nationalist leaders Cavour
and... |
politics | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | EBB
was again much involved in sympathy with Italian hopes for independence and liberal reform, while Garibaldi
as military leader and Cavour
as statesman orchestrated the campaign which in October 1860 made Victor Emmanuel II |
Textual Features | Menella Bute Smedley | A chivalric romance in verse, the work tells the tale of Queen Isabel
, her husband King John
and the Plantangenet struggle. During the poem's narrative, Isabel makes the mistake of marrying John but manages... |
Timeline
1852: Cavour became Prime Minister of Piedmont,...
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1852
Cavour
became Prime Minister of Piedmont, Italy.
July 1858: Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières...
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July 1858
July 1859: Napoleon III of France and Francis Joseph...
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July 1859
Napoleon III
of France and Francis Joseph of Austria
signed the Treaty of Villafranca.
January 1860: Cavour was again made Prime Minister of Piedmont...
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January 1860
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