Giuseppe Zanardelli (Brescia, October 2nd 1826 - Toscolano-Maderno, December 2nd 1903), legal consultant and statesman Italy N, was President of the Italian Council during the period February 15th 1901 - January 29th 1903.

Biography

Combatant in the voluntary body of the war of 1848 during the program of the Trentin, it turns over to Brescia after the defeat of Novare, and earns his living as law professor. He is molesté by the Austrian police force and is prohibited consequently to teach his refusal to write articles pro-Austrians in the Italian press. Elected official Appointed in 1859, it receives many various administrative nominations, but it obtains a political role only in 1876 when the left arrives at the capacity. Public Minister for Labor in the first government Depretis in 1876, and Minister of Interior Department in the government Cairoli in 1878, it starts in this last the reform of the frankness but causes dissatisfaction by indecision with his acts, particularly during agitation irredentist, and by his purely repressive and preventive at all design of criminality.

Returned by Cairoli in December 1878, it turns over to the capacity as Minister for Justice in the second Depretis government of 1881, and succeeds in supplementing the commercial Code. Given up by Depretis in 1883, it is maintained in the parliamentary opposition until 1887, where it again joined Depretis as Minister for Justice and it remains it during the government Crispi which followed, and this until January 31st, 1891. During this period it promulgates the Penal code and begins the reform of the magistrature, by creating the administrative courts and by regulating the access to the legal magistrature.

After the fall of the government Giolitti in 1893, Zanardelli makes vigorous but vain attempt to form a Cabinet. Elected official chair House of Commons in 1894 and 1896, it exerts this station until December 1897, date on which it accepts the post of minister of Justice in the Rudini government, to resign quickly after the appearance of dissensions with his/her colleague of the Visconti-Venosta Foreign affairs, in connection with the necessary measures to prevent the resurgence of the tumults of May 1898.

Turning over to the presidency of the Room, it again gives up this station to join the countryside obstruction against the bill of public safety (1899-1900), and is rewarded by the formation for a Cabinet supported by the extreme left with the fall for the government Saracco in February 1901. It is unable to carry out basic reforms lasting this last mandate because of difficulties of health in aggravation. Its bill on the divorce, although voted by the Room, must be withdrawn in front of the hostility of the public opinion. He resigns on November 21st 1903.

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