Alessandro Della Rovere
{{Short description|Italian politician and military personnel}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Alessandro Della Rovere
|image = Alessandro Della Rovere.jpg
|office = Minister of War
|term_start = 5 September 1861
|term_end = 3 March 1862
|monarch = Victor Emmanuel II
|primeminister = Bettino Ricasoli
|predecessor = Bettino Ricasoli
|successor = Agostino Petitti Bagliani di Roreto
|primeminister2 = Luigi Carlo Farini
|term_start2 = 8 December 1862
|term_end2 = 24 March 1863
|successor2= Agostino Petitti Bagliani di Roreto
|primeminister3 = Marco Minghetti
|term_start3 = 24 March 1863
|term_end3 = 28 September 1864
|successor3= Agostino Petitti Bagliani di Roreto
|office4= Senator of the Kingdom of Italy
|term_start4 = 29 November 1861
|term_end4 = 17 November 1964
}}
Alessandro Filippo Della Rovere (Casale Monferrato, 26 October 1815 – Turin, 17 November 1864) was a politician, general and senator of the Kingdom of Italy.{{cite web |title=DELLA ROVERE Alessandro |url=http://notes9.senato.it/Web/senregno.NSF/643aea4d2800e476c12574e50043faad/9ebd1d3b515374774125646f005aea08?OpenDocument |website=senato.it |publisher=Senato Della Repubblica |access-date=6 September 2023}}
Biography
A career officer, he took part in the First Italian War of Independence, the Crimean War and the Second Italian War of Independence. Appointed Lieutenant General of the Royal Sardinian Army in 1859, he was General Intendant of the Sardinian Army in 1860, and with the rank of Major General in the Royal Army. In April 1861 he was appointed Lieutenant General of the King in the Sicilian provinces, until September of the same year, when he was appointed Minister of War.{{cite web |last1=Ratti |first1=Guido |title=DELLA ROVERE, Alessandro |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-della-rovere_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=treccani.it |publisher=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |access-date=6 September 2023}}
As such he was one of the first Ministers of the newly formed Kingdom of Italy, holding the Ministry of War in three governments: Ricasoli I, Farini and Minghetti I (1861-1864). He died two months after leaving the ministry.{{cite web |title=Alessandro Della Rovere |url=https://storia.camera.it/deputato/alessandro-della-rovere-18151026/governi#nav |website=storia.camera.it |publisher=Camera dei Deputati |access-date=6 September 2023}}
In November 1861 he was appointed to the Senate king Victor Emmanuel II.
Honours
=Italian honours=
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Cavaliere di gran Croce Regno SSML BAR.svg | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Grande ufficiale OMS BAR.svg | Grand Officer of the Military Order of Savoy[http://www.quirinale.it/elementi/DettaglioOnorificenze.aspx?decorato=3441 Sito web del Quirinale: dettaglio decorato.] |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Cavaliere BAR.svg | Knight of the Military Order of Savoy |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Valor militare silver medal BAR.svg | Silver Medal of Military Valor |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Medaglia a ricordo dell'Unità d'Italia BAR.svg | Commemorative Medal of the Unity of Italy |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:CampagneGuerreIndipendenza.png | Commemorative Medal of the Unity of Italy |
=Foreign honours=
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Legion Honneur Commandeur ribbon.svg | Commander of the Legion of Honour |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Order of the Bath (ribbon).svg | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:Crimea1855.png | Crimea Medal |
| rowspan=2 style="width:60px; vertical-align:top;" | File:1859 Francese.png | Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign |
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Category:Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy