Count Camillo de Cavour, a political leader and an Italian statesman, was born at Turin on the 1st of August 1810.
(i) At the age of ten he entered the military academy at Turin.
(ii) He was a significant figure in the movement towards Italian unification and the founder of the original Italian Liberal Party.
(iii) He founded the Agrarian Association in 1842 and the newspaper Il Risorgimento in 1847, where he struggled to establish a constitutional monarchy.
(iv) Cavour was a liberal and had faith in free trade, public right of opinion and secular rule. So on becoming the prime minister of Piedmont Sardinia on 4 November 1852 Cavour strengthened the kingdom, reformed taxation, stabilised the currency, and improved the railway system.
(v) In 1853, he supported the French and British in the Crimean War with troops, in anticipation to enhance the prestige of Piedmont-Sardinia.
(vi) On March 17, 1861 when Victor Emmanuel II became the king of Italy, Cavour was formally declared as the prime minister of Italy.
(vii) Count Camillo de Cavour made considerable efforts for the creation of a modern Italian state. But unfortunately he died only three months after the declaration of a United Italy on 6 June 1861.
