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Giuseppe Prina

1766–1814 · 18th century

Giuseppe Prina was finance minister of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy from 1805. His heavy taxes, raised to pay for Napoleon's wars, made him widely hated. After Napoleon's abdication, a crowd in Milan lynched him on 20 April 1814, and the disorder helped Austrian troops take control of Lombardy.

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Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)

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