Luigi, Count Cibrario (23 February 1802 in Usseglio, Piedmont1 October 1870) was an Italian statesman and historian. Biography Born in Usseglio, in what is now the province of Turin, Cibrario was descended from a noble but impoverished Piedmontese family. He won a scholarship at the age of sixteen, and was teaching literature at eighteen. His verses to future king Charles Albert, then prince of Savoy-Carignano, on the birth of his son Victor Emmanuel, attracted the prince's attention and proved the beginning of a long intimacy. He entered the Sardinian civil service, and in 1824 was appointed lecturer on canon and civil law. His chief interest was the study of ancient documents, and he was sent to search the archives of Switzerland, France and Germany for charters relating to the history of Savoy. After the Bourbon Restoration in 1815 the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia reintroduced the teaching of history in the Italian primary school, which was firstly adopted by Napoleon. Cibrario authored the textbook titled Notizie sopra la storia dei principi di Savoia date dall’avvocato Luigi Cibrario ad uso delle scuole del Regno di Sardegna. While the history of the House of Savoy was used as a starting chapter point for the national history of Italy, Cibrario derived the genealogy of the House of Savoy from the Burgudian branch of Gisela of Burgundy, Marchioness of Montferrat and of [[Margaret of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy, therefore denying their purpoted and commonly accepted Anglo-Saxon root. This new acknowledgement on the House of Savoy reported the internal dynastic pretences in the context of the Roman public law. During the Revolutions of 1848, after the expulsion of the Austrians from Venice, Cibrario was sent to that city with Colli to negotiate its union with Piedmont. But the proposal fell through when news arrived of the armistice between King Charles Albert and Austria, and the two delegates were made the objects of a hostile demonstration. In October 1848 Cibrario was made senator, and after the Battle of Novara (March 1849), when Charles Albert abdicated and retired to a monastery near Porto, Cibrario and Count Giacinto di Collegno were sent as representatives of the Senate to express the sympathy of that body with the fallen king. He reached Oporto on 28 May, and after staying there for a month returned to Turin, which he reached just before the news of Charles Albert's death.