Giovanni Giolitti


Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the Prime Minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the secondlongest serving Prime Minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini.

Giolitti was born at Mondov . His father Giovenale Giolitti had been working in the avvocatura dei poveri, an office assisting poor citizens in both civil and criminal cases. He died in 1843, a year after Giovanni was born. The family moved in the home of his mother Enrichetta Plochi in Turin. At sixteen he entered the University of Turin and earned a law degree in 1860. Subsequently, he pursued a career in public administration. That choice prevented him from participating in the decisive battles of the Risorgimento , for which his temperament was not suited anyway, but this lack of military experience would be held against him as long as the Risorgimento generation was active in politics.

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