11 Facts About Giovanni Lanza

Domenico Giovanni Giuseppe Maria Lanza was an Italian politician and the eighth prime minister of Italy from 1869 to 1873.

Giovanni Lanza studied medicine in Turin, the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia, then returned to Casale where he divided his energies between practising medicine and developing his 33-hectare estate in nearby Roncaglia.

Giovanni Lanza studied and wrote on agricultural developments in both the practical and social aspects.

Giovanni Lanza was an active member of the Subalpine Agricultural Association of Turin and became its secretary.

Giovanni Lanza took an active part in the uprising of 1848 and was elected to the Piedmont Parliament that same year.

Giovanni Lanza attached himself to the party of Cavour and devoted his attention chiefly to questions of the economy and finance.

Giovanni Lanza became minister of education in 1855 in the Cavour cabinet, and in 1858 minister of finance.

Giovanni Lanza was minister of the interior in the La Marmora cabinet, and arranged the transfer of the capital to Florence.

Giovanni Lanza maintained a resolute opposition to the financial policies of Menabrea, who resigned in 1869 when Lanza was elected for the second time as President of the Chamber.

Giovanni Lanza formed a new cabinet in which he appointed himself minister of the interior.

Giovanni Lanza's cabinet had seen the accomplishment of Italian unity and the installation of an Italian government in Rome after the defeat of the Papal States in late 1870.