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Count Camillo di Cavour

Count Camillo di Cavour. In 1847, became a political journalist with his newspaper Il Risorgimento in Turin Gave a speech in front of many journalists in favor of a constitution for Piedmont, which was eventually granted Never really favored the establishment of a united country

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Count Camillo di Cavour

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  1. Count Camillo di Cavour • In 1847, became a political journalist with his newspaper Il Risorgimento in Turin • Gave a speech in front of many journalists in favor of a constitution for Piedmont, which was eventually granted • Never really favored the establishment of a united country • favored an expanded Piedmont rather than a unified Italy • like most Italians he resented the control that Austria had over the country • when an uprising in Milan against the Austrians occurred in 1849, Cavour was one of many who advocated the war that followed as the chance to expel the Austrians once and for all • the war was unsuccessful for the Piedmontese • Cavour was finally brought in to the Chamber of Deputies, sitting on the right as a conservative • gained a reputation as a non-revolutionary progressive • Cavour lost an election but was then brought back into Parliament • Cavour soon came to dominate the cabinet • Became Prime Minister of Piedmont on 4 November 1852

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