Pellegrino, Count, an able diplomatist, was born at Carrara in 1787, and was educated for the bar. A shrewd and sagacious disposition fitted him to take a high place in the active business of life. Wherever he went his talents asserted his claim to influence and precedence. At Bologna he was one of the leaders of the patriotic party. At Geneva he became a professor of law, a member of the council, and a representative of the canton in the Diet. Nor did his ability fail to command preferment after he had settled in Paris in 1833. In no long time he was naturalized, and was made a peer of France. It was, however, at Rome, in 1848 that Count Rossi played his most important part. All his diplomacy was then employed to bring his country safe out of the complicated dangers of a revolution. As a member of the Roman cabinet, he strenuously endeavoured to effect reform in a constitutional way. So prominent, in fact, was his zeal in that line of policy, that he became the object of the deadly hatred of the republican party; and on the 15th November 1848 he fell by the dagger of an assassin.