Riccardo Sineo

Riccardo Sineo (Sale, April 30, 1805 - Turin, October 18, 1876) was an Italian politician.

Early life A native of Sale, in the province of Alessandria, he moved to Turin at a very young age to attend the law faculty of the university of Turin It was during this period that young Richard, of patriotic ideals, took an active part in the Carbonari uprisings that broke out in Piedmont in 1821, which forced the regent Charles Albert of Savoy to grant the Spanish constitution.

Elected deputy in the Saluzzo constituency, he brought the new liberal demands to the Camera dei deputati, siding with the more democratic and radical wing headed by Vincenzo Gioberti. After the fall of the ministry headed by the generate Ettore Perrone di San Martino, on December 16 1848, Sineo was called to join the democratic ministry chaired by Gioberti as holder of the Interior. However, when the President of the Council of Ministers planned a Piedmontese armed intervention in Tuscany to restore the Lorraine dynasty, the Minister of the Interior with all his colleges of government disavowed Gioberti's action, prompting King Charles Albert to replace him, on March 21, 1849, with General Agostino Chiodo, in whose executive Sineo became Minister of Justice.

Later life After the defeat of Novara, he returned as a simple deputy, continuing to sit in the House in the following legislatures, during which he opposed, from the benches of the radical Left, Cavour's policies, especially opposing the expedition to Crimea in 1855 and the cession of Nice and Savoie to France in 1860. Even after the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, Sineo was re-elected to Parliament, always militating on the Left, voting, along with the entire Piedmontese parliamentary representation, against the September Convention of 1864, which moved the capital from Turin to Florence. Finally, on November 6, 1873, he was appointed senator by King Victor Emmanuel II of Savoy. He died in Turin on October 18, 1876, at the age of 71. He is buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Turin.