ROBILANT, CARLO FELICE NICOLIS, CONTE DI (1826-1888)

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ROBILANT, CARLO FELICE NICOLIS, CONTE DI (1826-1888) , Italian statesman and diplomat, was a native of

Turin

TURIN

. He entered the army, and lost his left hand at

Novara

NOVARA

, where he was aide-de-camp to Charles Albert, king of Piedmont. He fought in 1859, and reached the grade of general in the Austrian campaign of 1866, after which he served on the delimitation commission. He was

chief

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

of the Military

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

, and in 1867 was made prefect of Ravenna to suppress political disorder. He was defeated at

Turin

TURIN

in the elections for the Chamber in 187o, and was sent in 1871 as minister plenipotentiary to Vienna, where he subsequently became

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

. He was connected with the Prussian

nobility

NOBILITY

by his

mother

MOTHER

, and he married an Austrian, a daughter of Prince Edmund Clary-Aldringen. In spite of the active share he had taken in driving Austria from Italy, he was a persona grata at Vienna, and his policy was steadily directed to an alliance between the two

powers

POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

. This was accomplished by the

secret

SECRET (Lat. secretum, hidden, concealed)

terms of the Triple Alliance in 1882. He was recalled to Rome in 1885 to become minister for foreign affairs in the

Depretis

DEPRETIS, AGOSTINO (1813-1887)

cabinet. Robilant's independent attitude as foreign minister secured greater consideration for Italy from her allies, but he did not adapt himself to the exigencies of domestic politics, and his excessive unpopularity contributed to the downfall of the ministry on the 7th of February 1887, consequent on an adverse vote on the Massawa question. Before leaving office, he completed the negotiations for the renewal of the Triple Alliance, and for its extension to cover Anglo-Italian co-operation in the Mediterranean. In the new

Depretis

DEPRETIS, AGOSTINO (1813-1887)

-Crispi administration Robilant was not included. He was sent to London as

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

in the next year, but died two months after his arrival, on the 17th of October 1888.

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