10 Facts About Giuseppe Natoli

Giuseppe Natoli Gongora di Scaliti was an Italian lawyer and politician from the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

Giuseppe Natoli was Minister of Agriculture under Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, in the first government of the Kingdom of Italy after unification in 1861.

Giuseppe Natoli studied oratory and philosophy at the Accademia Carolina of Messina, and then studied law at the University of Palermo, where he graduated at the age of 22.

Giuseppe Natoli was offered a post as a judge, but declined it, not wishing to serve the Bourbon king.

Giuseppe Natoli took part in the Sicilian Revolution of 1848, and as a result fled Sicily for Turin, where he spent eleven years in exile.

Giuseppe Natoli was made a Senator of Italy and appointed prefetto of Brescia, but was dismissed after troops opened fire on a crowd on 16 May 1862.

Giuseppe Natoli was then prefetto of Siena for about two weeks.

Giuseppe Natoli died on 25 September 1867 in the cholera epidemic in Messina.

Giuseppe Natoli was buried in the chapel of the Arciconfraternita degli Azzurri.

Giuseppe Natoli was a Grand Officer of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, and an officer of the Order of San Marino.