ELECTIONS "What I try to taste me ballottare!?! Oh! Lady! What I would try me in caressing ..... with the danger of scratching me ..... fifty thousand pounds at a time !! ....." . Dialogue in the living room during the election campaign of the 1897 elections; conducted with the uninominal system in two rounds on March 21 for the first round; and 28 for the second round. The XX Legislature of the Kingdom of Italy began on 5 April; in the course of the Rudin?Government III. Cover of 'The Pasquino'; Turin humorous weekly founded in 1856 by Giovanni Piacentini and Giuseppe Cesana Augustus (1821-1903). The head is named after the most famous of 'talking statues' of Rome; near which the common people were using post overnight short satire in verse who took anonymously targeting the most prominent and controversial characters of the moment. Turin; March 7; 1897.