About Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa
Lived 1808 – 1889 (aged 80). Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa was an Italian politician.
Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa (16 July 180812 January 1889) was an Italian statesman who served as President of the Senate from 1 December 1870 to 20 September 1874.
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 1874.
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Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa was born on 16 July 1808 in Trapani.
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Vincenzo Fardella di Torrearsa died on 12 January 1889 in Palermo.
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