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Wikipedia: Camillo Paolo Filippo Giulio Benso, Count of Cavour, of Isolabella and of Leri (August 10, 1810 – June 6, 1861) was a leading figure in the movement toward Italian unification. He was the founder of the original Italian Liberal Party and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, a position he maintained (except for a six-month resignation) throughout the Second Italian War of Independence and Garibaldi's campaigns to unite Italy. Cavour died only three months after the declaration of a united Kingdom of Italy, and thus did not live to see Venetia or Rome included in the kingdom.
![[Cavour from CDV by Mayer & Pierson, published in 1861.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Camillo_Benso_2C_conte_di_Cavour_2C_1861_s.jpg "Cavour from CDV by Mayer & Pierson, published in 1861.")
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![[Cavour as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1850s).]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mayer_2C_L_C3_A9opold_Ernest_281817_ca_1865_29_26_Pierson_2C_Pierre_Louis_281822_1913_29_Camillo_Benso_di_Cavour_28_2B1861_29_s.jpg "Cavour as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia (1850s).")
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![[An early portrait of Cavour.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/FURNE_FILS_26_H_TOURNIER_PARIS_Camillo_Benso_conte_di_Cavour_s.jpg "An early portrait of Cavour.")
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