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Crispi, Francesco 1819-1901
Italian statesman
Born at Ribera, Sicily, he was called to the Bar and became a member of the provisional government established in Palermo after the insurrection of 1848. He was exiled from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in 1849 and settled in Turin; he organized the successful movement of 1859-60, and re-entered Sicily with Garibaldi. In the restored kingdom of Italy he became Deputy, President of the Chamber, Interior Minister, and Premier (1887-90, 1894). A member of the Left, he was strongly anticlerical, and maintained the alliance with Germany at the cost even of alienating France. The Abyssinian disaster of the Battle of Adowa (1896) compelled his resignation.
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