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Camillo de Cavour

Associated Locations:

• Turin, First French Empire – Birthplace

Associated Dates:

• August 10, 1810 – Born

Camillo de Cavour is one of the eminent spirits who appeared to President Wilford Woodruff in the St. George Temple on August 21, 1877. This interesting story is detailed in the Eminent Spirits Appear to Wilford Woodruff wiki. Cavour spent many frustrating years working for the unity of Italy. The capstone of all his efforts was his invitation to act as Italy’s first Prime Minister in 1852. When Cavour died in 1861, Italy was once again a single kingdom under a constitutional monarchy, save for Venetia and the city of Rome. Eventually these two also joined the new united land. Cavour’s was the brain behind induced Napoleon III to enter Italy in 1859. This led to the eventual destruction of power in Austria. Cavour’s diplomacy kept Itlay free from foreign interference while Italy’s “errant knight,” Giuseppe Garibaldi, won repeated victories against superior numbers of the Austrians and, in one of the most brilliant military campaigns, swept across Italy, overthrowing old feudal kingdoms.

I am the son of liberty, to her I owe all that I am.

– Count Camillo de Cavour

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Associated Locations:

• Marbach am Neckar, Württemberg, Germany – Birthplace

Associated Dates:

• November 10, 1759 – Born

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller is one of the eminent spirits who appeared to President Wilford Woodruff in the St. George Temple on August 21, 1877. This interesting story is detailed in the Eminent Spirits Appear to Wilford Woodruff wiki. “Schiller is considered by modern Germans as their poet of liberty. His influence reached its zenith with the production of his drama ‘’William Tell’’. In this play, Schiller unfurls freedom to the then awaiting world, establishing its standard on the most elevated peaks of Europe. As the story unfolded he aligned freedom with nature, clothing it in such eloquence that it would never again return, clothing it in such eloquence that it would never again return to the oblivion from which he had plucked it. Though his life spanned but a brief forty-five years, Schiller attained the great heights in the application of his intellectual and moral talents. In all his writings there is a profound reverence for all that is good. His histories came alive with great men and great deeds. ”

Edward G. Lytton-Bulwer

Associated Locations:

• London, England

Associated Dates:

• May 25, 1803 – Born

Edward G. Lytton-Bulwer is one of the eminent spirits who appeared to President Wilford Woodruff in the St. George Temple (Latter-day Saint, LDS) on August 21, 1877. This interesting story is detailed in the Eminent Spirits Appear to Wilford Woodruff wiki.

“Lytton wrote over thiry novels and seven plays. Even though some of his earlier novels possessed the morbid sentimentalism that was popular during that age, he exerted a tremendous mental influence on the writers of the time. His later novels would rise above his earlier works to provide worthy models to follow. Earnest, thoughtful, conscientious, and painstakingly accurate, Edward George Lytton-Bulwer was at the same time the most versatile author of his day.”