Francesco Ceva Grimaldi

Francesco Ceva Grimaldi (13 February 1831 – 21 November 1899) was an Italian politician. He was a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy and a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Life and career

A member of a noble family of Genoese origin that established itself in Naples in the 16th century, Ceva Grimaldi was born in Naples, the only son of Maria Adelaide Martini and who had been the President of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. As a young man, he had belonged to an early precursor of the Italian Liberal Party but left the party because of police harassment following the failure of the 1848 revolutions. He nevertheless adhered to liberal ideals throughout his life, according to his eulogy in the Italian Senate delivered by Giuseppe Saracco.