Giulio Nicolò Marchese Prinetti (6 June 1851 – 9 June 1908) was an Italian businessman and politician from

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. He was the

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's period between 1901 and 1903, and signed the

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renewal in 1902. Before that, he was deputy to the department of public works, elected in 1882. He became the

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under

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between March 1896 and December 1897. Between 1883 and 1901, he was the co-owner of the

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automobile manufacturer. Prinetti left politics after being struck by

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in 1904, and died in

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four years later. Biography Of noble Merate family, he was the son of the Marquis Luigi Prinetti Castelletti, who was mayor of

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. His father's brothers, Ignazio and Carlo, were appointed senators of the kingdom, respectively in 1860 and 1874 . Elected deputy in

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, he quickly came to prominence among the conservatives. Having obtained the ministry of public works in the Antonio Starrabba ministry in

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, he proved to be an iron and upright administrator. Alongside Luigi Pelloux and Sidney Sonnino he fought against the extreme left which, in an epic parliamentary battle, prevented the legalistic coup d'état that the monarchy had promoted. In

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, following the defeat of the reactionary right, he toned down his positions by entering the democratic and anticlerical Zanardelli-Giolitti cabinet as Foreign Minister and, in this role, he made agreements with France ( Barrère -Prinetti of 1902 ) which, confirming the already existing Visconti Venosta -Barrère agreements, aimed at guaranteeing Italy the approval of France in the African question. He had the Prinetti Decree approved, which prohibited subsidized emigration , to avoid phenomena of exploitation which occurred especially in Brazil and which was also defended by Filippo Turati 1 After being entrusted with the foreign ministry, he left the Prinetti & Stucchi company , founded by him in Milan in 1875, with his brother-in-law Augusto Stucchi, for the production of bicycles and motor vehicles, in which he had called the young Ettore Bugatti to collaborate.

Honours

* 1903 : Created Marquis by Royal decree. * 1903 : Knight grand Cross in the

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. *: Knight Grand Cordon of the Imperial

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- ''July 1902''. *: Knight of the Order of Merit of the Prussian Crown - ''August 1902'' - during the visit to Germany of King

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* : Grand Cross of the

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– ''November 1902'' – ″in testimony of the good relations between France and Italy″.

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