Vincenzo Calenda di Tavani
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Vincenzo Calenda di Tavani | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
| In office 15 December 1893 – 10 March 1896 | |
| Preceded by | Giacomo Armò[1] |
| Succeeded by | Giacomo Giuseppe Costa |
| Senator | |
| In office 7 June 1886 – 4 November 1910 | |
Vincenzo Calenda, baron of Tavani (8 February 1830 in Nocera Inferiore – 4 November 1910 in Nocera Inferiore) was a judge in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Italy. He was also a senator of the Kingdom of Italy and Minister of Justice in the third and fourth Crispi governments (from 15 December 1893 to 10 March 1896).[2]
Calenda was born into an ancient and distinguished family, the son of Gregorio Calenda and Artemisia de Vincentiis.[3] He graduated in law from the University of Naples. In 1853 he and his brother Andrea won the two vacant positions of speaker at the State Council of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He began his career in the judiciary in 1857 when he was appointed judge at the civil court of Capitanata, in Lucera. From April 1862 to December 1864 he was deputy general prosecutor and appeals councilor in Catanzaro. In 1865 he was invited to assist Justice Minister Giuseppe Vacca in the work of legislative unification for the Kingdom of Italy as the head of his ministerial cabinet in Turin and Florence before returning to his career as a judge.[4][5]
In the 1870s he rose steadily through the appeals courts of Catanzaro and Palermo before becoming attorney general in the appeal courts of Naples (1875), Milan (1876) and Rome (1876). He was then president of the courts of appeal in Trani (1877) and Genoa (1879). In 1881 he became attorney general at the Court of Cassation in Turin. In 1885 he was appointed attorney general in the Court of Cassation in Naples, a post he held until 1883 when he entered government, and to which he returned between 1896 and 1907 from the collapse of the Crispi cabinet until his retirement.[3][5]
