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Biography of Daniele Manin
Name: Daniele Manin
Birth Date: May 13, 1804
Death Date: September 22, 1857
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Male
Occupations: patriot
Daniele Manin
The Venetian patriot Daniele Manin (1804-1857) labored for the liberation of Venice from Austria and made an important contribution to the unification of Italy.Daniele Manin was born on May 13, 1804, the son of a converted Jew who adopted the name of the patrician family that had sponsored him. Manin studied law at the University of Padua and then took up practice in Venice. As his practice grew, his reputation as a brilliant and profound jurist grew with it.Manin's first act in the cause of liberation was the presentation of a petition in 1847 to a body called the Venetian Congregation, a purely advisory assembly that the Austrian government permitted to gather precisely because it had no power at all. The petition, addressed to the Emperor, listed the grievances of the Venetian people. Manin hated the Austrian domination of Venice and was injudiciously frank about it.On Jan. 18, 1848, he was arrested for …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…helped him.On August 27 Manin left for Paris, where he came to believe that the only hope for Italian unity lay with the Piedmontese monarchy. He cooperated in the founding of the Società Nazionale Italiana, an organization devoted to the goal of unification under the Piedmont. On Sept. 22, 1857, Manin died, only a few years before Italy realized the goals he had spent his life to achieve. Further Reading For a lively and accurate account of Manin see George M. Trevelyan, Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848 (1923). Not specifically about Manin but dealing thoroughly with the period is G. F. H. and J. Berkeley, Italy in the Making (3 vols., 1932-1940). Also useful is A. J. P. Taylor, The Italian Problem in European Diplomacy, 1847-1849 (1934).Ginsborg, Paul, Daniele Manin and the Venetian revolution of 1848-49, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Trevelyan, George Macaulay, Manin and the Venetian revolution of 184, New York, H. Fertig, 1974.
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