Daniele Manin
Daniele Manin · Historical & Religious Figures
President of the revolutionary Republic of Venice (1848-49), hero of the Italian Risorgimento
13 mai 1804, Venise, Italie — 22 septembre 1857, Paris, France
Venise, Paris
Daniele Manin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Historical & Religious Figures — President of the revolutionary Republic of Venice (1848-49), hero of the Italian Risorgimento
Origins and early life
Daniele Manin was born on 13 May 1804 in Venice.
Work and career
According to the authoritative notice of the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Treccani, 2007), his paternal grandfather, Samuele Medina, a Jew of Verona, converted to Catholicism with his wife Allegra Moravia in April 1759, taking the surname of the patrician family that sponsored him and the very first name of his baptismal godfather, Ludovico Manin — the future last doge of Venice; some older accounts place the conversion a generation later, at his father, and this fiche records the divergence plainly.
Daniele, born Catholic, became a lawyer and the soul of Venetian resistance to Austria. Freed from prison by the crowd in March 1848, he proclaimed the Republic of San Marco and presided over it through seventeen months of siege, cholera and bombardment, refusing surrender until August 1849. Exiled, he taught Italian in Paris and died there on 22 September 1857; in 1868 Venice brought his remains home in triumph.
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President of the revolutionary Republic of Venice (1848-49), hero of the Italian Risorgimento
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