Bernardino Giannuzzi Savelli
Italian magistrate and politician (1822-1887)
Bernardino Giannuzzi Savelli (Cosenza, 19 November 1822 – Rome, 10 November 1887) was an Italian magistrate and politician.
Biography
He was born in Cosenza on 19 November 1822, the eldest son of Domenico, Baron of Pietramala and of Rosa Maria Mollo, daughter of Baron Saverio. He came from a branch of the old aristocratic Savelli family. He studied in Cosenza, showing an uncommon ability to learn, and at the Federico II University of Naples, graduating in law.
In 1845 he entered the judiciary, and held the position of public prosecutor in one of the most difficult moments of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and began to progress rapidly in a judicial career. In February 1862 he moved to Turin as a member of the Commission for Legislative Studies that was working n the integration of Neapolitan and Piedmontese law.
In 1878, accepting the invitation of Cardinal Guglielmo Sanfelice d'Acquavella, metropolitan archbishop of Naples, he was for a short period a municipal councilor of the city. In 1878 he was the first president of the Court of Appeal of Rome. During the same period he was president of the Commission for the preparation of the Commercial Code. On 21 June 1881, on the proposal of Giuseppe Zanardelli, he was appointed senator of the Kingdom by King Umberto I. On 25 May 1883 Prime Minister Agostino Depretis invited him to join the government as Minister of the Seals and Minister of Justice and Religion.
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