CARLO COTTONE, PRINCE OF CASTELNUOVO PALERMO

Carlo Cottone, Prince of Castelnuovo (Palermo, September 30, 1754 - Palermo, Dec. 24, 1829) was an Italian politician.
Because of his liberal ideas he was deported to Favignana in July of 1811, but was pardoned in January of the following year, for the intervention of the British Minister, Lord William Bentinck, and became part of the Sicilian government as finance minister.

On 19 July 1812 the Sicilian Parliament approved the constitution he proposed, which included the abolition of birthright aristocratic.

He was involved in the following improvements to agriculture and founded his villa, with the help of Paul Balsamo and Nicholas Palmieri, a "Seminary of agriculture" for the education of the children of farmers.

In 1873 a statue was erected in the Piazza Castelnuovo in Palermo designed by Giovan Battista Mansion and sculpture by Domenico Costantino.

CARLO COTTONE, PRINCE OF CASTELNUOVO PALERMO

BED AND BREAKFAST BAOBAB, Piazza Armerina