 Also in that year, 1855, Campori made a long journey to France and England, where he was struck by a serious lung disease, which would have accompanied him until his death, in 1887.Following the annexation of Modena to the Savoyard state in 1860, the marquis was elected in the first Italian Parliament as a representative of the city college and subsequently held the office of mayor for two terms.His political and scientific activity was accompanied by a passion for collecting, that led him to gather a vast number of handwritten papers, paintings, art works and printed books.