 "Telegrafia privata – Agenzia Stefani" (Private Telegraph – Stefani Agency) was created on January 26, 1853, in Turin by Guglielmo Stefani, who was of Venetian origin and was the director of the newspaper "Gazzetta Piemontese", with support from Camillo Cavour.Under the Cavour government, the agency gained huge advantages through the granting of secret funds while the Statuto Albertino banned privileges and private monopolies.The radical press, meanwhile, suffered from restrictions on freedom of information.