26 Facts About Tancredi Galimberti

Tancredi Galimberti was an Italian politician during the first part of the twentieth century.

Tancredi Galimberti served as Minister for Postal and Telegraphic communications in the Zanardelli government between 1901 and 1903.

Tancredi Galimberti was born in Cuneo, a midsized town and important regional capital in the hills south of Turin.

Tancredi Galimberti was the eleventh of his parents' fourteen recorded children.

Tancredi Galimberti's father, Bartolomeo Galimberti, was a typographer by trade and something of a "self-made man" by temperament.

Bartolomeo Galimberti grew prosperous and became in 1861 the proprietor of "Sentinella delle Alpi".

Tancredi Galimberti received a classical college education from the Scolopi fathers in nearby Savona and then progressed to university, studying first at Rome where he became involved with republican groups.

Tancredi Galimberti moved on to the University of Turin, emerging in 1880 with a degree in Jurisprudence.

Tancredi Galimberti sat as a member of parliament, representing the Cuneo electoral district, without a break between 1887 and 1913.

Tancredi Galimberti was initially very close to his fellow Cunean, Giolitti.

Tancredi Galimberti nevertheless opposed the application repressive measures to try and resolve the social issues that were coming to the fore in the context of Italy's rapid industrialisation.

Tancredi Galimberti opposed colonial expansion and, on the nearer international front, favoured closer co-operation with France.

On 10 March 1896 Tancredi Galimberti was included in the new government as Undersecretary in the Ministry for Public Education.

Tancredi Galimberti was, understandably, seen by some as "one of Giolitti's men" in the government, which lasted only for slightly more than four months.

Tancredi Galimberti nevertheless retained his post in the successor government, remaining in office till October 1897 when his minister resigned.

In parliament Tancredi Galimberti opposed the Pelloux government, arguing powerfully that it was the paucity of "social legislation" that was feeding socialist propaganda in the cities and clerical hostility to the government across the country.

However, when the Zanardelli government was announced on 15 February 1901, it was apparent that Tancredi Galimberti had accepted an appointment as Minister for Postal and Telegraphic communications.

At the Ministry for Posts and Telecommunications Tancredi Galimberti was succeeded by the poet-politician Enrico Stelluti Scala.

Tancredi Galimberti's family came from Vienna, but the marriage formalities and ceremony took place in Rome.

Tancredi Galimberti faced, in Marcello Soleri, a young energetic opponent whose liberal convictions and credentials created an overlap between the electoral appeal of the two men.

Tancredi Galimberti could continue to rely on strong masonic support, which was important Cuneo and the network of villages in the region.

That might have been enough to secure electoral success for Tancredi Galimberti had it not been for a direct intervention from Giolittiano with Count Gentiloni, a leader of "Catholic Action", a recently launched and rapidly expanding group dedicated to reversing recent declines in the political influence of the church.

Tancredi Galimberti was associated briefly with some of the grandees of "liberalism", including Antonio Salandra and Francesco Saverio Nitti, before retreating into a period of political isolation.

Tancredi Galimberti devoted his time, instead, to studying the "Risorgimento", while supporting himself by means of his legal work.

Tancredi Galimberti married the poet and literature scholar Alice Schanzer in Rome in 1902.

The couple's sons, Carlo Enrico Galimberti, who became and engineer, and Tancredi Galimberti, a lawyer, a consistent anti-fascist and, after 1940, a partisan, were born respectively in 1904 and 1906.