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Photographic portrait of Daniele Manin- (Archivio Ateneo Veneto, courtesy of Ateneo Veneto)

Nineteenth-century Venetian politician, promoter of the opposition movement to the Austrian administration, he became President of the Provisional Government of Venice after the popular uprising and the expulsion of the Austrians.

Following the capitulation of the Venetian Republic, he was exiled to France and joined Cavour's unitarian-monarchist movement, becoming one of the founders of the Italian National Society.

In private life he was malincholic and insecure, on the contrary he turned into a lively and precise orator in public, they remember him as an energetic man albeit marked by a realistic scepticism. An active participant in the social and political life of Venice, he was always at the forefront in stimulating debates on important topics such as railways, law and agriculture. He wanted to succeed in setting up a patronage for prisoners coming out of jail, a home for orphans and for the children of poor artisans, but he did not miss an opportunity to criticise Habsburg policy so much so that at t

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