Terenzio Mamiani della Rovere

Terenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere (19 September 1799 – 21 May 1885) was an Italian writer, academic, diplomat, and politician, committed to the cause of the unification of Italy under the Sardinian monarchy. He was one of the leading figures of Liberal Catholicism. Born in Pesaro in 1799, he took part in the unrest at Bologna in 1831, serving as minister of the interior before being exiled. He returned to Rome in 1848 to form a ministry but resigned due to conflicts with the Pope. He later worked for Italian unification in Genoa, served as minister of education, and held diplomatic posts as ambassador to Greece and Switzerland. He was also a senator and councillor of state, retiring from diplomatic career in 1867. Mamiani founded the Academy of Philosophy in Genoa and was a professor of the history of philosophy in Turin. He published numerous works on philosophical, social, and poetic subjects. He died in Rome in 1885.