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DANIELE See also:MANIN (1804–18J7)
, Venetian patriot and states-See also:man, was See also:born in See also:Venice, on the 13th of May 1804
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He was the son of a converted See also:Jew, who took the name of See also:Manin because that patrician See also:family stood sponsors to him, as the See also:custom then was
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He studied See also:law at See also:Padua, and then practised at the See also:bar of his native See also:city
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A man of See also:great learning and a profound jurist, he was inspired from an See also:early See also:age with a deep hatred for See also:Austria
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The heroic but foolhardy See also:attempt of the See also:brothers See also:Bandiera, Venetians who had served in the See also:Austrian See also:navy against the Neapolitan Bourbons in 1844, was the first event to cause an awakening of Venetian patriotism, and in 1847 Manin presented a See also:petition to the Venetian See also:congregation, a shadowy consultative See also:assembly tolerated by Austria but without any See also:power, informing the See also:emperor of the wants of the nation
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He was arrested on a See also:charge of high See also:treason (See also:Jan
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18, 1848), but this only served .to increase the agitation of the Venetians, who were beginning to know and love Manin
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Two months later, when all See also:Italy and See also:half the See also:rest of See also:Europe were in the throes of revolution, the See also:people forced See also:Count Palffy, the Austrian See also:governor, to See also:release him (See also: Towards the end of 1848 the Austrians, having been heavily reinforced, reoccupied all the Venetian mainland; but the citizens, hard-pressed and threatened with a See also:siege, showed the greatest devotion to the cause of freedom,all sharing in the dangers and hardships and all giving what they could afford to the See also:state See also:treasury . Early in 1849 Manin was again chosen president of the republic, and conducted the See also:defence of the city with great ability . After the defeat of Charles Albert's f.lorn See also:hope at See also:Novara in March the Venetian assembly voted "Resistance at all See also:costs!" and granted Manin unlimited powers . Meanwhile the Austrian forces closed See also:round the city; but Manin showed an astonishing power of organization, in which he was ably seconded by the Neapolitan See also:general, Guglielmo See also:Pepe . But on the 26th of May the Venetians were forced to abandon Fort Malghera, half-way between the city and the mainland; See also:food was becoming scarce, on the 19th of See also:June the See also:powder See also:magazine blew up, and in See also:July See also:cholera See also:broke out . Then the Austrian batteries began to See also:bombard Venice itself, and when the Sardinian See also:fleet withdrew from the Adriatic the city was also attacked by See also:sea, while certain demagogues caused See also:internal trouble . At last, on the 24th of August 1849, when all See also:pro-visions and See also:ammunition were exhausted, Manin, who had courted See also:death in vain, succeeded in negotiating an See also:honourable See also:capitulation, on terms of See also:amnesty to all See also:save Manin himself, Pepe and some others, who were to go into See also:exile . On the 27th Manin See also:left Venice for ever on See also:board a French See also:ship . His wife died at See also:Marseilles, and he himself reached See also:Paris broken in See also:health and almost destitute, having spent all his See also:fortune for Venice . In Paris he maintained himself by teaching and became a See also:leader among the Italian exiles . There he became a convert from republicanism to monarchism, being convinced that only under the auspices of King See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel could Italy be freed, and together with Giorgio Pallavicini and Giuseppe La See also:Farina he founded the Society Nazionale Italiana with the See also:object of propagating the See also:idea of unity under the Piedmontese See also:monarchy . His last years were embittered by the terrible sufferings of his daughter, who died in 1854, and he himself died on the 22nd of See also:September 1857, and was buried in Ary See also:Scheffer's family See also:tomb .
In 1868, two years after the Austrians finally departed from Venice, his remains were brought to his native city and honoured with a public funeral
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Manin was a man of the greatest honesty, and possessed genuinely statesmanlike qualities
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He believed in Italian unity when most men, even See also:Cavour, regarded it as a vain thing, and his See also:work of propaganda by means of the See also:National Society greatly contributed to the success of the cause
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See A
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Errera, Vita di D
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Manin (Venice, 1872) ; P. de la Farge, Documents, &c., de D
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Manin (Paris, 186o) ; See also:Henri See also: |
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