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The anniversary of the rely’s “sudden dying”. Camillo Benso di Cavour This 12 months has additionally handed in silence. The “Father of the Fatherland” died, in reality, at daybreak on 6 June 1861 in his mattress in his Turin house. He was solely 50 years previous. Within the official report the attending doctor Alessandro Riberi he wrote: “He handed away on account of an excessive amount of psychological fatigue, agitations of spirit, disgusts devoured in silence”. A non-medical analysis that by no means satisfied anybody just like the speculation of an alleged malaria assault which solely fueled a welter of doubts and suspicions. In Turin the “chatter” instantly supported the speculation of poisoning. Sure, Cavour would have been “out of the best way”: murdered. However by whom? And why?
A query that shortly turned yellow and nonetheless right this moment shrouds his dying in thriller. The Rely of Cavour (rightly thought-about the “mastermind” of the Unification of Italy, a lot in order that the nice von Metternich outlined him as “the one true politician in all of Europe”) was recognized to everybody as a decided, cynical particular person and unscrupulous. In personal he was an incredible lover of the great life: “addicted” to playing in addition to being an inveterate “tombeur des femmes”! It’s documented, in reality, that Cavour had an extended and really embarrassing sequence of lovers. All stunning, clever, noble girls and, strictly talking, already married. A Rely of Cavour, due to this fact very completely different from the “boring” and institutional one recognized from the official narrative!
However who would have needed his dying? In the present day, virtually two centuries after these days, three hypotheses have emerged. None is, in fact, sure. What is for certain, nevertheless, is that Cavour instantly felt ailing on the night time of Could twenty ninth.
He had simply returned house from a night spent along with his lover, the Hungarian dancer Bianca Sevieza married Ronzani. She was the good friend who – he was very jealous – had been seeing for a number of years. However why would Bianca have poisoned him? For cash, which she was very grasping for. A commissioned crime, due to this fact. The theses most supported right this moment (however by no means formally supported) communicate of French, English and Home of Savoy “pursuits” itself. The French thesis accredits in Napoleon III the potential principal. The emperor, who “helped” Cavour a number of instances, would in reality have demanded in trade some Italian territories together with Tuscany and the Papal States. Paris would thus ship the spouse of a excessive French police commissioner to Turin to bribe Cavour’s lover in trade for 500 thousand lire. A fortune on the time! However there may be additionally the shadow of the London financiers who, by advantage of the opening of the Suez Canal, needed to succeed in out to the Italian South within the aftermath of the “favor” of the British who had “protected” the touchdown of Garibaldi in Marsala. Not exempt would even be an oblique accountability of the king Victor Emmanuel II who couldn’t stand the ever-increasing energy of the rely.
In the present day Rely Camillo Benso is buried within the small household pantheon on the Cavour Fortress in Santena on the outskirts of Turin. A number of steps from his tomb, however outdoors the funeral chapel, on a garden, there’s a plaque commemorating Virginia Aldoini, the Countess of Castiglione. A dutiful “recognition” to the attractive cousin Virginia whom the rely, with none scruple, despatched (when she was solely 18 years previous) to Paris with the specific “mission” of slipping into the mattress of Emperor Napoleon III. All this to acquire decisive assist from the French sovereign within the Struggle of Independence in opposition to Vienna. And he or she can be preserved on the citadel of Santena (in accordance with the historian Arrigo Petacco, however not from the property) additionally the well-known turquoise dressing robe that the countess wore on the night time in Compiegne wherein the way forward for Italy was determined. An extra “thriller” amongst too many mysteries!
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