CIBRARIO, LUIGI, COUNT Italian statesman and historian, was born in Usseglia. His verses to King Charles Albert, then prince of Carignano, on the birth of his son Victor Emmanuel, led to a long friendship. He entered the Sardinian civil service, and in 1824 was appointed lecturer on canon and civil law. He was sent to search the archives of Switzerland, France and Germany for charters relating to the history of Savoy. Dur ing the war of 1848, after the expulsion of the Austrians from Venice, Cibrario was sent to that city with Colli on an abortive mission to secure its union with Piedmont. After the battle of Novara (1849) and the abdication of Charles Albert he visited the ex-king at Oporto on behalf of the Senate. In May 1852 he be came minister of finance in the reconstructed d'Azeglio cabinet, and later minister of education in that of Cavour. He strongly supported Cavour's Crimean policy (1855), and, as minister for foreign affairs during the war, he seconded Cavour in procuring the admission of Piedmont to the congress of Paris on an equal footing with the great Powers. On retiring from the foreign office Cibrario was created count. After the war of 1866 by which Aus tria lost Venetia, Cibrario negotiated the restitution of State papers and art treasures removed by the Austrians from Lom bardy and Venetia to Vienna. He died in Oct. 187o, near Salo, on the lake of Garda. His most important work was his Economia politica del redio evo (Turin, 1839), popular then, but now of little value. His SchiavitiI e servaggio (Milan, 1868-69) gave an account of the development and abolition of slavery and serfdom. His biography has been written by F. Odorici, 11 Conte L. Cibrario (Florence, 1872).