Giuseppe La Farina is born to Messina in 1815, was graduated in law in 1835, was editor of the Zancleo Spectator and participated to the antiborbonico insurrectionary movement of 1837.

More times, for its ideas, were forced to the exile before in Tuscany to Florence, then to Rome. Returned to Messina in 1838 thanks to an amnesty it had to leave again in 1841, it was settled down to Florence where it published numerous historical works and of Ghibelline neo guideline: l ' Italy in its monuments, ricordanze and customs - 1842; Historical studies of the sec. XIII - 1842; History of Italy narrated from Italian people - 1846.

The Dawn in 1847-1848 directed the daily paper democratic. It made return in Sicily in 1848 after the explosion of the revolution of 12 January, was elect deputy to the room, went in diplomatic mission to the field of Carl Alberto to Valeggio on the Mincio, was minister of the instruction and the jobs publics (1848) then of the war and navy of sicialian government (1849).

After the repression of the sicialian revolution it was esule to Marseilles and to Paris, it worked to the History of Italy from 1815 to 1850 (Turin 1851-1852). It abandoned its republican ideas gradatamente, was settled down to Turin where it directed the contemporary Review and, decidedly, schierò on filopiemontesi positions (ahi!) , it participated in 1856 with D. Manin and G. Pallavicino to the foundation of the national Society of which he was secretary, and contributed to orient towards the Piemonte di Cavour the moderated public opinion that it did not share more the mazziniani insurrectionary methods.

In 1860 it supported the shipment of Garibaldi in Southern Italy and received the assignment from part of Cavour to try to push the Sicily to the union with the Piemonte (ahi!) .

The piemontesi were revealed very soon get worse of the predecessori, the state treasury much esoso rimpinguava the cases sabaude impoverendo a population to the extreme of the forces, every attempt of protest came Barbarian suffocated, divenne indefensible also to be able to survive, the poverty and the misery by now gripped the Sicily and the emigration had become by now the only anchor of salvation for more decorous living conditions, consone to people who for millenia had known and made its the progressed civilizations more.

Giuseppe the Flour, was deputy in the seventh and eighth legislatura and participated to the jobs of the Council of State where it had entered in 1860.

It died to Turin in 1863. Its interesting Epistolario was published in 1869.