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4 unusual facts about Francesco Crispi


Battle of Amba Alagi

Prime Minister Crispi's shocked cabinet agreed to advance another 20 million lire (£80,000) to ensure that a disaster could be stopped.

Battle of Calatafimi

Francesco Crispi, among others, landed before the Mille on Sicily to raise support among the locals for the Mille.

Francesco Crispi

Crispi himself was born in Ribera, Sicily, to Tommaso Crispi, a grain merchant and Giuseppa Genova; he was baptised as a Greek Orthodox.

RML 17.72 inch gun

This was a worrying problem because Francesco Crispi, one of the key architects of the Italian reunification, had called Malta "Italia irredenta" ("Unredeemed Italy").


Ernesto Nathan

His house in Rome became a center of literarian and political debate, with figures like Giosuè Carducci and Francesco Crispi Nine years later he was member Parliament for Crispi's left-wing party.

Fiera District in Bologna, Italy

The first important fair held in Bologna was in 1888, in the Margherita gardens, inaugurated by King Umberto I with the consort Margherita di Savoia and from the President of the Council Francesco Crispi.


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