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CORRENTI, CESARE (1815-1888) , Italian revolutionist and politician, was born on the 3rd of January 1815, at Milan , 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 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
deputy 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
appointed councillor of state, and received various other public positions, especially in connexion with the railway and financial
portfolio of education; he played an important part
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See E. Massarani, Cesare Correnti nella vita e nelle opere (189o); and L. Carpi, Il Risorgimento italiano, vol. iv. (Milan, 1888). (L. V.*) End of Article: CORRENTI, CESARE (1815-1888) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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