Name Giacinto Collegno | Died 1856, Baveno, Italy | |
Similar Giuseppe Lechi, Teodoro Lechi, Alberto della Marmora | ||
Giacinto Provana di Collegno (Turin, 1793 – Baveno, 1856) was an Italian patriot of the Risorgimento period, a friend of Giuseppe Garibaldi. Trained as a geologist, he became a Piedmontese politician and in July 1848 he was appointed Minister of War in the Casati government.
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