Alessandro Fortis in Forlì

Forlì

Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre...

, Papal States

Papal States

The Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...

 was an Italian

Italy

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 politician who served as the 27th Prime Minister of Italy

Prime minister of Italy

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 from 1905 to 1906.

An Italian patriot he joined Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...

 in 1866 and fought with him first in Trentino then at Mentana and in France. He was Italy's first Jewish Prime Minister.

His daughter Maria Fortis married the count Rinaldo Girolamo Saffi of Forlì (1868–1929), a minor son of count Aurelio Saffi

Aurelio Saffi

Aurelio Saffi was an Italian politician, active during the period of Italian unification...

 (1819–1890) a famous patriot and hero of Italian Risorgimento who had also been one of the major sponsors of the political career of Alessandro Fortis himself.