Luigi de' Medici
Luigi de' Medici | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | |
| In office 27 June 1816 – 9 July 1820 | |
| Preceded by | Tommaso di Somma |
| Succeeded by | Tommaso di Somma |
| In office June 1822 – 25 January 1830 | |
| Preceded by | Tommaso di Somma |
| Succeeded by | Donato Tommasi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 April 1759 Naples, Campania, Italy |
| Died | January 25, 1830 (aged 70) Madrid, Spain |
| Parent(s) | Michele de' Medici and Carmela de' Medici (née Filomarino) |
| Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
Luigi de' Medici (21 April 1759 – 25 January 1830) was an Italian nobleman, legal scholar, diplomat and statesman, who served as Prime minister of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the legal representative at the Congress of Vienna.
Luigi de' Medici lived and worked through some of the most tumultuous periods of the Kingdom of Naples: straddling the final stages of the reactionary reforms of Sir John Acton; the short-lived Parthenopean Republic proclaimed in Naples by Napoleon in 1799; the Sanfedismo (its fall); the retreat of the Bourbon court to Palermo under English protection after Napoleon took Naples a second time (1806); their restoration; and the eventual suppression of the Sicilian constitution and autonomy when the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily were unified into the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816).