Word: cavour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combining great foresight with tireless devotion to the course he saw necessary, Count Camillo Benso Cavour, after helping to bring about the institution of constitutional government in Italy in 1848, worked incessantly and successfully to make this government run smoothly from the beginning. This story of Cavour's accomplishments was told by Mario Einaudi, government instructor, yesterday, in the second of a series of lectures based on Cavour and his contributions to constitutional government in Italy...
...Einaudi told how the king was forced to issue an edict on February 7, 1848, granting the constitutional government Cavour advocated, when a revolution broke out in Austrian dominated Piedmont in that year. Cavour's greatest work took place when the preparations were made for the inception of the democratic system of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. At this time Cavour was the only figure of the day to work on the specific problems involved, and by his efforts and wide knowledge gained by studying first-hand the parliamentary bodies in England and France, he brought the new system...
First lectures on "Cavour and the Beginnings of Parliamentary Government in Italy" will be given this afternoon at 2 o'clock, in Harvard Hall, when Mario Einaudi, instructor in Government, will open the fourth series of lectures being conducted this year by the Government Department...
...Einaudi, who will take up "Cavour and the Beginnings of Parliamentary Government in Italy," has chosen as his dates, February 5, 7, 12, 14, 19, and 21. The History of International Law, as interpreted by Dr. Wild, will be discussed in Harvard Hall on March...
...present-day Italy, the schools teach that liberals like Mazzini and Cavour are fascists, just fore runners of great Musolini. Such a situation was intolerable to me. After I had spent a month in prison in 1925 for my liberal views, I decided to leave the country...