Farini

Farini, LUIGI CARLO, an Italian statesman, was born in 1812 at Russi, in the province of Ravenna. He studied medicine at Bologna, and practised with success in his native city, but in 1841 had to leave the Papal States for Turin, owing to the part he had taken in politics. The amnesty and liberalism of the new pope, Pius IX., called him to Rome in 1846, where he became an under-secretary for Home Affairs, and held office under the ill-fated Rossi. Farini next found in Piedmont public honours as well as a home. In 1851 he became minister of Public Instruction, in 1859 provisional governor of Modena, in 1861 minister of Commerce in the last cabinet of Cavour, and he was himself premier from December 1862 till the breakdown of his health in the following March. He died near Genoa on 1st August 1866; and in 1878 his remains were translated to Russi. Among Farini's literary productions may be mentioned Il Stato Romano, translated into English by Mr Gladstone (4 vols. Lond. 1851–54), and Storia d'Italia, a continuation of Botta's celebrated work.