Giovanni Lanza

Giovanni Lanza
8th Prime Minister of Italy
In office December 14, 1869 – July 10, 1873
Monarch	Victor Emmanuel II
Preceded by	Luigi Federico Menabrea
Succeeded by	Marco Minghetti
Personal details
Born	(1810-02-15)February 15, 1810 Casale Monferrato, Piedmont
Died	March 9, 1882(1882-03-09) (aged 72) Rome, Latium
Political party	Historical Right
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Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Lanza (February 15, 1810 – March 9, 1882) was an Italian politician and the eighth Prime Minister from 1869 to 1873.

Lanza was born in the Piedmontese city of Casale Monferrato. He studied medicine at Turin, capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, then returned to Casale where he divided his energies between practising medicine and developing his 33 hectare estate in nearby Roncaglia. He studied and wrote on agriculture developments in both the practical and social aspects. Lanza was among the first in Monferrato to introduce modern equipment as iron ploughs and seed drills, and also involved himself in the agricultural education of poor children, hoping to achieve at once “the betterment of our agriculture and the moral and intellectual betterment of our agricultural workers.”^[1]

He was also an active member of the

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(2 vols., Turin and Naples, 1887). La Vita ed i tempi di Giovanni Lanza That article cites Enrico Tavallini,  

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Lanza formed a new cabinet in which he was himself minister of the interior. With Papal States in late 1870.

He followed Cavour into his temporary retirement in July 1859 after the Treaty of Villafranca, and for a year (1860–1861) was chairman of the House. He was minister of the interior (1864–1865) in the La Marmora cabinet, and arranged the transference of the capital to Florence. He maintained a resolute opposition to the financial policy of Menabrea, who resigned when Lanza was a second time elected, in 1869, chairman of the House.

He took an active part in the rising of 1848 and was elected to the Piedmontese parliament in that year. He attached himself to the party of Cavour and devoted his attention chiefly to questions of economy and finance. He became minister of public instruction in 1855 in the cabinet of Cavour, and in 1858 minister of finance.

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