Agostino Depretis | |
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| Prime Minister of Italy | |
| In office 29 May 1881 – 29 July 1887 | |
| Monarch | Umberto I |
| Preceded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| Succeeded by | Francesco Crispi |
| In office 19 December 1878 – 14 July 1879 | |
| Monarch | Umberto I |
| Preceded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| Succeeded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| In office 25 March 1876 – 24 March 1878 | |
| Monarchs | Victor Emmanuel II Umberto I |
| Preceded by | Marco Minghetti |
| Succeeded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| Minister of the Interior | |
| In office 25 November 1879 – 29 July 1887 | |
| Prime Minister | Benedetto Cairoli Himself |
| Preceded by | Tommaso Villa |
| Succeeded by | Francesco Crispi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 4 April 1886 – 29 July 1886 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Carlo Felice Nicolis |
| Succeeded by | Francesco Crispi |
| In office 29 June 1885 – 6 October 1885 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Pasquale Stanislao Mancini |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Felice Nicolis |
| In office 19 December 1878 – 14 July 1879 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| Succeeded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| In office 26 December 1877 – 24 March 1878 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Luigi Amedeo Melegari |
| Succeeded by | Luigi Corti |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 25 March 1876 – 26 December 1877 | |
| Prime Minister | Himself |
| Preceded by | Girolamo Cantelli |
| Succeeded by | Agostino Magliani |
| In office 17 February 1867 – 10 April 1867 | |
| Prime Minister | Bettino Ricasoli |
| Preceded by | Antonio Scialoja |
| Succeeded by | Francesco Ferrara |
| Minister of the Navy | |
| In office 20 June 1866 – 17 February 1867 | |
| Prime Minister | Bettino Ricasoli |
| Preceded by | Diego Angioletti |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Biancheri |
| Minister of Public Works | |
| In office 3 March 1862 – 8 December 1862 | |
| Prime Minister | Urbano Rattazzi |
| Preceded by | Ubaldino Peruzzi |
| Succeeded by | Luigi Federico Menabrea |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 18 February 1861 – 29 July 1887 | |
| Constituency | Stradella |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 January 1813 Stradella, Lombardy, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 29 July 1887 (aged 74) Stradella, Lombardy, Kingdom of Italy |
| Political party | Historical Left |
Agostino Depretis (31 January 1813 – 29 July 1887) was an Italian statesman and politician. He served as Prime Minister of Italy for several stretches between 1876 and 1887, and was leader of the Historical Left parliamentary group for more than a decade. He is the fourth-longest serving Prime Minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Giolitti and Silvio Berlusconi, and at the time of his death he was the longest-served. Depretis is widely considered one of the most powerful and important politicians in Italian history.[1]
He was a master in the political art of Trasformismo, the method of making a flexible, centrist coalition of government which isolated the extremes of the left and the right in Italian politics after the unification.[2]
- ^ La dittatura parlamentare di Giolitti
- ^ Killinger, The history of Italy, p. 127–28