Domenico Farini

In 1850 he entered the Military Academy of Turin, and later commanded a Sardinian sapper company during the Second Italian War of Independence.

[1] Farini was elected into the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1864, in the college of Ravenna, for the centre-left coalition.

After a period of absence from the political activities, which he spent at Saluggia in Piedmont, Farini was elected to the Italian Senate in 1886.

In that period he wrote a diary, a collection of personal thoughts, which expresses his ideals of unity within the newly formed national monarchy, and his strong anti-clerical position.

The book was published by the Italian senate in 1961 with the title Diario di fine secolo.