Marco Minghetti

Marco Minghetti
Marco Minghetti
5th Prime Minister of Italy
	In office; 10 July 1873 – 25 March 1876
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by	Giovanni Lanza
Succeeded by	Agostino Depretis
	In office; 24 March 1863 – 28 September 1864
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by	Luigi Carlo Farini
Succeeded by	Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora
Personal details
Born	18 November 1818; Bologna, Papal States
Died	10 December 1886 (aged 68); Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Political party	Historical Right

Marco Minghetti (18 November 1818 – 10 December 1886) was an Italian economist and statesman.

Biography

Minghetti was born at Bologna, then part of the Papal States.

He signed the petition to the Papal conclave, 1846, urging the election of a liberal pope, and was appointed member of the state council summoned to prepare the constitution for the Papal States. With Antonio Montanan and Rodolfo Audinot he founded at Bologna a paper, Il Felsineo. In the first constitutional cabinet of the Papal States, presided over by Cardinal Antonelli, Minghetti held the portfolio of public works, but after Pius IX publicly spoke against the Italian Risorgimento he resigned and joined the Piedmontese army as captain on the general staff.

Returning to Rome in September 1848, he refused to form a cabinet after the assassination of Pellegrino Rossi (15 November), and spent the next eight years in study and travel. Summoned to Paris by Cavour in 1856 to prepare the memorandum on the Romagna provinces for the Paris congress resolving the Crimean War, he was in 1859 appointed by Cavour secretary-general of the Piedmontese Foreign Office. In the same year he was elected president of the assembly of the Romagna after the rejection of pontifical rule by those provinces, and prepared their annexation to Piedmont.

Appointed Piedmontese minister of the interior, he resigned office shortly after Cavour's death, but was subsequently chosen to be minister of finance by Farini, whom he succeeded as Prime Minister in 1863. With the help of Emilio, marquis Visconti-Venosta he concluded (September 15, 1864) the September Convention with France, whereby Napoleon III agreed to evacuate Rome, and Italy to transfer her capital from Turin to Florence. The convention excited violent opposition at Turin, in consequence of which Minghetti was obliged to resign office. He took little part in public life until 1869, when he accepted the portfolio of agriculture in the Menabrea Cabinet.

Both in and out of office he exercised his influence against an Italo-French alliance and for an immediate advance upon Rome, and in 1870 was sent to London and Vienna by the Lanza-Sella Cabinet to organize a league of neutral powers on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War. In 1873 he overthrew the Lanza-Sella Cabinet and regained the premiership, which, with the portfolio of finance, he held until the fall of the Right from power on 18 March 1876.

During his premiership he inaugurated the rapprochement between Italy, Austria and Germany, and reformed the naval and military administration; and before his ouster he was able, as finance minister, to balance the State budget for the first time since 1860. After the advent of the Left, Minghetti remained for some years in opposition, but towards 1884 joined Depretis in creating the Trasformismo ("Transformation" movement), which consisted in bringing Conservative support to Liberal cabinets. Minghetti, however, drew from it no personal advantage, and died at Rome on 10 December 1886 without having returned to power.

His writings include: Della economia pubblica e delle sue attinenze con la morale e col diritto (Bologna, 1859), and La Chiesa e lo Stato (Milan, 1878).

Writings

Political offices
Preceded by Urbano Tattazzi	Italian Minister of the Interior 1860–1861	Succeeded by Bettino Ricasoli
Preceded by Quintino Sella	Italian Minister of the Treasury 1862–1864	Succeeded by Quintino Sella
Preceded by Luigi Carlo Farini	Prime Minister of Italy 1863–1864	Succeeded by Alfonso La Marmora
Preceded by Antonio Ciccone	Italian Minister of Commerce 1869–1869	Succeeded by Stefano Castagnola
Preceded by Quintino Sella	Italian Minister of the Treasury 1873–1876	Succeeded by Agostino Depretis
Preceded by Giovanni Lanza	Prime Minister of Italy 1873–1876	Succeeded by Agostino Depretis

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References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Minghetti, Marco". Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 523.

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