Count Cavour. The man who created Italy

The proclamation in March 1861 of a single Italian state - the kingdom of Italy - became an epoch -making event in the history of Europe. The first government of Italy was headed by Count Camillo Di Cavur. This man played an exceptional role in the country"s annals and in the movement of Risorgimento.
Count Kavur lived only fifty years, but in such a short period of time he became a symbol of the era and made the incredible? Created a new country. The contemporary of those events, British Prime Minister Henry Palmerston said that "Italy, real and future, would see in him one of the greatest patriots who have ever adorned the history of any nation. I do not know a single country, so much obligated to his sons, how much Italy owes him.
This book is the first in Russian a detailed biography of the great Italian statesman, whom the outstanding composer Giuseppe Verdi called the "Prometheus of our national movement"