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Francesco Crispi
Francesco Crispi was an Italian revolutionary, statesman, and politician. During his tenure as Prime Minister, he pursued an anti-French foreign policy, promoting the Triple Alliance and the colonial expansion of Italy, while domestically he cracked down harshly on social protest movements. Between 1887 and 1896, Crispi led a total of four governments.
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politics · Italian patriot and statesman (1818–1901) · politician · diplomat · lawyer · minister · also Francesco Crispi, Crispi
Born 4 October 1818 · Died 11 August 1901 · Q332626
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Corriere della Sera: Francesco Crispi, un ritratto destinato a rimanere nel tempo
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2005· 1 entry
“Fundamentals of critical argumentation”
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1986· 1 entry
“Third World Ideology and Western Reality”
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1935· 1 entry
“Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions”
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1934· 1 entry
“The Tragedy of the Political Exiles”
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1933· 1 entry
“The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism”
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1908· 1 entry
(seven years after Crispi's death) one of them, Charles DeRudio, claimed to have seen, half an hour before the attack, a man approaching and talking with Orsini, and recognized him as Crispi
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1901· 1 entry
Died 1901-08-11.
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1898· 1 entry
With the Italians agreeing to end their tariffs on French goods in exchange for the French ending their tariffs on Italian goods
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1897· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1897–1900).
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1895· 3 entries
Talked quite openly about attacking France, sent a naval squadron to the eastern Mediterranean to prepare for a possible war with the Ottoman Empire in order to seize Albania, wanted to send an expeditionary force to sei
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With Italian troops under the command of General Oreste Baratieri having initial success until Ethiopian troops counterattacked Italian positions and besieged the Italian fort of Meqele, forcing its surrender
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1895–1897).
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1894· 2 entries
In order to forestall Mahdist attacks on Eritrea
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Was threatened with expulsion from the Masonic Grande Oriente d'Italia for being too friendly towards the Catholic Church
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1893· 4 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1893–1896).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1893–1896).
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Had found the secret service coffers empty, and had borrowed money from a state bank to fund it, repaying it with the monthly instalments granted in regular course by the treasury
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Faced a more united front than they expected
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1892· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1892–1895).
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1891· 1 entry
Pope Leo XIII, who was respected in both countries due to widespread Catholicism, intervened as mediator in the conflict
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1890· 2 entries
Was an extraordinary triumph for Crispi
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1890–1892).
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1889· 1 entry
Crispi's government promoted a reform of the magistracy and promulgated a new penal code, which unified penal legislation in Italy, abolished the death sentence and recognised the right to strike
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1888· 1 entry
Fears were rampant that an Italian armed intervention was imminent on Colombian coasts
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1887· 4 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy (1887–1891).
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Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1887–1891).
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Career landmark: minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Italy (1887–1891).
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But feared that publicity might undermine public confidence and suppressed the report
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1886· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1886–1890).
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1885· 1 entry
“an Albanian by blood and heart”
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1883· 1 entry
The leaders of the Left, Agostino Depretis, and the Right, Marco Minghetti, formed an alliance based on a flexible centrist coalition of government which isolated the extremes of the left and the right; these politics wa
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1882· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1882–1886).
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1881· 1 entry
Crispi was among the main supporters of the universal male suffrage, which was approved by the government of Agostino Depretis
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1880· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1880–1882).
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1877· 2 entries
Career landmark: minister of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (1877–1878).
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During the Great Eastern Crisis Crispi was offered Albania as possible compensation by Bismarck and the British Earl of Derby if Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia, however, he refused and preferred the Italian Alpine region
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1876· 3 entries
In which the Left gained almost 70% of votes, Crispi was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1876–1880).
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Career landmark: President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1876–1877).
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1874· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1874–1876).
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1873· 1 entry
Induced Crispi's friends to put forward his candidature to the leadership of the Left; but Crispi, anxious to reassure the crown, secured the election of Agostino Depretis
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1870· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1870–1874).
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1867· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1867–1870).
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1866· 1 entry
Refused to enter Baron Bettino Ricasoli's cabinet; in 1867 he worked to impede the Garibaldian invasion of the papal states, foreseeing the French occupation of Rome and the disaster of Mentana
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1865–1867).
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1864· 1 entry
Finally deserted Mazzini and announced he was a monarchist, because as he put it in a letter to Mazzini: "The monarchy unites us; the republic would divide us
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1860· 1 entry
To participate in the Expedition of the Thousand
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1859· 1 entry
Crispi wrote a union between Greeks and Albanians would make Italy and Greece become closer
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1853· 1 entry
Crispi was implicated in the Mazzini conspiracy and was arrested by the Piedmontese policy and sent to Malta
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1849· 1 entry
Moved to Turin, the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, where he worked as a journalist
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1845· 1 entry
Crispi took up a judgeship in Naples, where he distinguished himself for his liberal and revolutionary ideas
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1842· 1 entry
Crispi wrote about the necessity to educate poor people, about the huge damage caused by the excessive wealth of the Catholic Church and regarding the need for all citizens, including women, to be equal before the law
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1835· 1 entry
Studied law and literature at the University of Palermo receiving a law degree in 1837; in the same year, he fell in love with Rosina D'Angelo, the daughter of a goldsmith
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1829· 1 entry
At 11 years old, he attended a seminary in Palermo, where he studied classical subjects
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1818· 1 entry
Born 1818-10-04.
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