Cavour

Camillo Benso, comte de Cavour · First Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861 · 1810–1861

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Cavour only in passing, and always in connection with Italian unification. He presents him as the architect of the unification achieved around Piedmont1, the Piedmontese statesman who unifies Italy for Victor Emmanuel2. On several occasions he calls him "the Italian Bismarck" or the Italian equivalent of Bismarck3 4. In this way he draws a parallel between Piedmont's policy of unification and the one carried out in Germany. These mentions come up in sessions that deal with other subjects: music and its performers, Wagner and Götterdämmerung, the irony of the community, the Grail quest. In 2024 he comes back to the late arrival of Italian unity and links it to fascism, which he describes as a fascism of neophytes5. For him, Cavour is not a subject of study in his own right. He serves as a historical reference point when he discusses the formation of modern Italy.

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Who is this?

Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, Isolabella and Leri (Italian:; 10 August 1810 – 6 June 1861), generally known as the Count of Cavour ( kə-VOOR; Italian: Conte di Cavour) or simply Cavour, was an Italian politician, statesman, businessman, economist, and noble, and a leading figure in the movement towards Italian unification. […]

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