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Quintino Sella - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | QUINTINO SELLA (1827-1884), Italian statesman and financier, was born at Mosso, near Biella, on the 7th of July 1827. |
 | | The Rattazzi cabinet fell before Sella could efficaciously provide for the deficit of £17,500,000 with which he was confronted; but in 1864 he returned to the ministry of finance in the La Marmora cabinet, and dealt energetically with the deficit of £8,000,000 then existing. |
 | | Persuading the king to forgo £120,000 of his civil list, and his colleagues in the cabinet to relinquish part of their ministerial stipends, he effected savings amounting to £2,400,000, proposed new taxation to the extent of £1,600,000, and induced landowners to pay one year's instalment of the land tax in advance. |
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