Count Cavur. The person who created Italy. Babina A.

The proclamation of a single Italian state - the kingdom of Italy in March 1861 - became an epoch -making event in the history of Europe. The first government of Italy was headed by Count Camillo Di Cavur, who played an exceptional role in the country's annals and in the RiSorgimento movement. An irresistible desire for a goal, strength of character, courage, freedom of love, extraordinary intelligence, insight, wisdom in solving the most important issues - this is only a small characteristic of a kavura -policy that has become a symbol of its time.

This book is the first in Russian A detailed biography of the great Italian statesman, whom the outstanding composer Giuseppe Verdi called "Prometheus of our national movement."