Domenico Farini (2 July 1834 – 18 January 1900) was an Italian soldier and statesman, who was

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from 1887 to 1898. He was the son of politician

Luigi Carlo Farini Luigi Carlo Farini (22 October 1812 – 1 August 1866) was an Italian physician, statesman and historian. Biography Farini was born at Russi, in what is now the province of Ravenna. After completing a brilliant university course at Bolo ...

Biography

Farini was born at Montescudolo, in the

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(present-day

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). After a period in

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, he followed his family in exile to

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and then to

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and

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. In 1850 he entered the Military Academy of

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, and later commanded a Sardinian sapper company during the

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. He also took part in the sieges of

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and siege of Gaeta (1861), and in the

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. Later he was part of the national staff of the newly formed Italian Army. Farini was elected into the

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in 1864, in the college of Ravenna, for the centre-left coalition. He was president of the Chamber for three times between 1878 and 1884. After a period of absence from the political activities, which he spent at

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, Farini was elected to the Italian Senate in 1886. The following year he was named president of the latter. In that period he wrote a diary, a collection of personal thoughts, which expresses his ideals of unity within the newly formed national monarchy, and his strong anti-clerical position. The book was published by the Italian senate in 1961 with the title ''Diario di fine secolo''. He died of cancer in Rome in January 1900.

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"Domenico Farini"
in the

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's ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani''

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