Agostino Depretis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Agostino Depretis

Italian politician

Date of Birth: 31-Jan-1813

Place of Birth: Cava Manara, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 29-Jul-1887

Profession: politician, diplomat, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Agostino Depretis (31 January 1813 – 29 July 1887) was an Italian statesman and politician.
He was the Prime Minister of Italy for several times between 1876 and 1887 and leader of the Historical Left parliamentary group for more than a decade.
He is the fourth-longest serving Prime Minister in Italian history, after Benito Mussolini, Giovanni Giolitti and Silvio Berlusconi.
Depretis is widely considered one of the most powerful and important politicians in Italian history.He was a master in the political art of Trasformismo, the method of making a flexible, centrist coalition of government which isolated the extremes of the left and the right in Italian politics after the unification.