Career
Born in Trapani, was Count and Marquis of Torrearsa. He was a protagonist of the Italian Risorgimento. In Sicilian revolution of 1848 was president of Sicilian Parliament.
Fardella was then in exile in Turin, London and Nice.
In 1860 following the expedition of Giuseppe Garibaldi"s Mille was minister in the Dictatorship of Garibaldi. In 1870, after the capture of Rome, he was elected president of the Senate of Italy, the first in Palazzo Madama, until to 1874.
