He was born in Ribera (Agrigento) in the 1818, participated in the movement for the unification of Italy. Mazziniano; Garibaldi's secretary of state in Sicily during the enterprise of the thousand in the 1860, which he requested.
Minister of the Interior in the 1877-78 and in the 1887, he was the first Sicilian politician to hold the office of prime minister. He died in Naples in the 1901.
Source: Military Navy
