Sidney Sonnino
| Sidney Sonnino | |
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| 19th Prime Minister of Italy | |
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In office 11 December 1909 – 31 March 1910 |
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| Monarch | Victor Emmanuel III |
| Preceded by | Giovanni Giolitti |
| Succeeded by | Luigi Luzzatti |
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In office 8 February 1906 – 29 May 1906 |
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| Preceded by | Alessandro Fortis |
| Succeeded by | Giovanni Giolitti |
| Minister of the Treasury | |
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In office 15 December 1893 – 10 March 1896 |
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| Prime Minister | Francesco Crispi |
| Preceded by | Bernardino Grimaldi |
| Succeeded by | Giuseppe Colombo |
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In office 3 January 1889 – 9 March 1889 |
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| Prime Minister | Francesco Crispi |
| Preceded by | Bonaventura Gerardi |
| Succeeded by | Giovanni Giolitti |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 15 December 1893 – 14 June 1894 |
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| Prime Minister | Francesco Crispi |
| Preceded by | Lazzaro Gagliardo |
| Succeeded by | Paolo Boselli |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 5 November 1914 – 23 June 1919 |
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| Prime Minister |
Antonio Salandra Paolo Boselli Vittorio Emanuele Orlando |
| Preceded by | Antonino Paternò Castello |
| Succeeded by | Tommaso Tittoni |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Sidney Costantino Sonnino 11 March 1847 Pisa, Italy |
| Died | 24 November 1922 (aged 75) Rome, Italy |
| Political party |
Historical Right (1880-1922) Italian Liberal Party (1922) |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino (11 March 1847 – 24 November 1922) was an Italian politician. He was the 19th Prime Minister of Italy and twice served briefly as one, in 1906 and again from 1909 to 1910. He also was the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs during the First World War, representing Italy at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Sonnino was born in Pisa to an Italian father of Jewish heritage (Isacco Saul Sonnino, who converted to Anglicanism) and a Welsh mother, Georgina Sophia Arnaud Dudley Menhennet. He was raised an Anglican by his family. His grandfather had emigrated from the ghetto in Livorno to Egypt where he had built up an enormous fortune as a banker.
After graduating in law in Pisa in 1865, Sonnino became a diplomat and an official at the Italian embassies in Madrid, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, from 1866 until 1871. His family lived at the Castello Sonnino in Quercianella, near Livorno. He retired from the diplomatic service in 1873.
In 1876, Sonnino traveled to Sicily with Leopoldo Franchetti to conduct a private investigation into the state of Sicilian society. In 1877, the two men published their research on Sicily in a substantial two-part report for the Italian Parliament. In the first part Sonnino analysed the lives of the island's landless peasants. Leopoldo Franchetti's half of the report, Political and Administrative Conditions in Sicily, was an analysis of the Mafia in the nineteenth century that is still considered authoritative today. Franchetti would ultimately influence public opinion about the Mafia more than anyone else until Giovanni Falcone over a hundred years later. Political and Administrative Conditions in Sicily is the first convincing explanation of how the Mafia came to be.
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