CORRENTI, CESARE (1815-1888)

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CORRENTI, CESARE (1815-1888) , Italian revolutionist and politician, was born on the 3rd of January 1815, at

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

, of a poor but noble family. While employed in the public debt administration, he flooded Lombardy with revolutionary pamphlets designed to excite hatred against the Austrians, and in 1848 proposed the general abstention of the Milanese from smoking, which gave rise to the insurrection known as the Five Days. During the revolt he was one of the leading spirits of the operations of the insurgents. Until the reoccupation of

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

by the Austrians he was secretary-general of the provisional government, but afterwards he fled to Piedmont, whence he again distributed his revolutionary pamphlets throughout Lombardy, earning a

precarious

PRECARIOUS

livelihood by journalism. Elected

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

in 1849, he worked strenuously for the national cause, supporting Cavour in his Crimean policy, although he belonged to the Left. After the annexation of Lombardy he was made

commissioner

COMMISSIONER

for the liquidation of the Lombardo-Venetian debt, in 186o was
appointed councillor of state, and received various other public positions, especially in connexion with the railway and

financial

FINANCIAL

administration. He veered round to the Right, and in 1867 and again in 1869 he held the

portfolio

PORTFOLIO (shortened form of Porto folio, adapted from the Ital. portafogli, portare, to carry, and fogli, sheets or leaves of paper, Lat. folium, leaf)

of education; he played an important

part

PART

in the events consequent upon the occupation of Rome, and helped to draft the Law of Guarantees. As minister of education he suppressed the theological faculties in the Italian universities, but eventually resigned office and allied himself with the Left again on account of conservative opposition to his reforms. His defection from the Right ultimately assured the advent of the Left to power in 1876; and while declining office, he remained

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

adviser of Agostino

Depretis

DEPRETIS, AGOSTINO (1813-1887)

until the latter's death. On several occasionsnotably in connexion with the redemption of the Italian railways, and with the Paris exhibition of 1878he acted as representative of the government. In 1877 he was given the lucrative appointment of secretary of the order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus by

Depretis

DEPRETIS, AGOSTINO (1813-1887)

, and in 1886 was created senator. He died at Rome on the 4th of October 1888. He left a considerable

body

BODY

of writings on a variety of subjects, none of which is of exceptional merit.
See E. Massarani, Cesare Correnti nella vita e nelle opere (189o); and L. Carpi, Il Risorgimento italiano, vol. iv. (Milan, 1888). (L. V.*)

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