AZEGLIO, ASSIMO TAPARELLI, 1%larchese d' (1798-1866). An Dalian states man, author, and artist, the descendant of an ancient and noble Piedmontese family. lle was born at Turin. October 4, 1798. After a brief service in a Piedmontese cavalry regiment, which ill-health forced him to abandon, D'Azeglio went to Rome and devoted himself to art, winning an enviable reputation in landscape painting. After his father's death, in 1830, he went to Milan, and there made the aequaintanee of Manzoni, whose daughter he married. Through Alanzoni he was introduced into the literary circle of the day, and soon afterwards made his &quit in literature with the patriotic novel Ettore Pieremosca (1833). and Yieeo/6 (lc' La pi (1841), which did much toward fanning the national spirit in Italy. The political affairs of Italy soon occupied him exclusively, and called forth his famous attack upon the Papal Government. Degli nlllp»i cnsi di. Romagna, in which he strenuously urged upon the Italian princes the necessity of a national policy. After the election of Pope Pius IX., D'Azeglio went to Rome, and to him are to some extent ascribed the reforms with which Pius be gan his government. He took part in the cam paign of 1848 against Austria, both in Lombardy and in Venetia, and was severely wounded at the battle of Vicenza. On the opening of the Sar
dinian Parliament he was chosen a member of the Chamber of Deputies. and, after the unfortunate battle of Novara, Mareh 23. 1849. was intrusted by Victor Emmanuel I I, with the task of forming a ministry; and his careful and shrewd policy. especially toward France. won him at the time as many enemies as later it gained him admirers. He was succeeded, in 1852, by Cavour. At the close of the war, in 1859. D'Azeglio was appoint ed pro tempore general and commissioner extraor dinary (purely military) for the Roman States. He died 15. 1866. Since his death. /Mahe de 18'17 i/ 1865; correspombin•e poll Nam. tic Massimo d'.t:rqtio (181M), and other writings from his pen, 'minding an autobiograph ical work, 1 midi rirordi, have appeared ( Flor ence, 1873). There have been published numerous biographies of D'Azeglio, including those by ( 'a merini (Turin, 1861) ; lauInsnn ( Florence, 1866) ; Alassari (Turin, 1867) ; Alorozzo (Flor ence. 1884). Consult also Vismara, Bibliogratin di JiassLimo d'azeglio (Milan. 1878).