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Italian politician
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Place of birth
Trapani, Italy
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Palermo, Italy
Age
80 years
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Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
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Biography
Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (16 July 1808 – 12 January 1889) was an Italian statesman who become President of the Senate after Italian unification.
Life
Born in Trapani, was Count and Marquis of Torrearsa. He was a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento. In Sicilian revolution of 1848 was president of Sicilian Parliament. Fardella was then in exile in Turin, London and Nice.
In 1860 following the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi's Mille was minister in the Dictatorship of Garibaldi. In 1861 he was elected Member of Italian Chamber of Deputies and soon after appointed Senator of the Kingdom.
In 1870, after the capture of Rome, he was elected president of the Senate of Italy, the first in Palazzo Madama, until to 1874.
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