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Manin, Daniele 1804-57
Italian lawyer and statesman

Born in Venice of Jewish ancestry, he practised at the Bar, and became a leader of liberal opinion. As President of the Venetian republic (1848) he was at the centre of the heroic five months' defence against the Austrians. When Venice capitulated (1849), Manin, with 39 others, was excluded from the amnesty, but escaped to Paris, where he taught Italian. He shifted from his republican stance to support for a united Italy, and he supported Giuseppe La Farina in his creation of the Italian National Society. His bones were taken to Venice in 1868.