Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
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Pasquale Mancini | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 29 May 1881 – 29 June 1885 | |
Prime Minister | Agostino Depretis |
Preceded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
Succeeded by | Carlo Felice Nicolis |
Minister of Justice | |
In office 25 March 1876 – 24 March 1878 | |
Prime Minister | Agostino Depretis |
Preceded by | Paolo Onorato Vigliani |
Succeeded by | Raffaele Conforti |
Minister of Public Education | |
In office 4 March 1862 – 31 March 1862 | |
Prime Minister | Urbano Rattazzi |
Preceded by | Francesco de Sanctis |
Succeeded by | Carlo Matteucci |
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 18 February 1861 – 26 December 1888 | |
Constituency | Naples |
Personal details | |
Born | Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 17 March 1817 Castel Baronia, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies |
Died | 26 December 1888 Naples, Kingdom of Italy | (aged 71)
Political party | Historical Left |
Spouse(s) | ; her death |
Children | 11 children |
Alma mater | University of Naples Federico II |
Profession | Jurist, statesman |
Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 8th Marquess of Fusignano (17 March 1817 – 26 December 1888) was an Italian jurist and statesman.
Early life
Mancini was born in
Career
In 1848 he was instrumental in persuading Ferdinand II to participate in the war against Austria. Twice he declined the offer of a portfolio in the Neapolitan cabinet, and upon the triumph of the reactionary party undertook the defence of the Liberal political prisoners.
Threatened with imprisonment in his turn, he fled to
In 1862 he became minister of public instruction in the Rattazzi cabinet, and induced the Chamber to abolish capital punishment. Thereafter, for fourteen years, he devoted himself chiefly to questions of international law[2] and arbitration,[3] but in 1876, upon the advent of the Left to power, became minister of justice in the Depretis cabinet. His Liberalism found expression in the extension of press freedom, the repeal of imprisonment for debt, and the abolition of ecclesiastical tithes.
During the
His desire to retain French confidence was the chief motive of his refusal in July 1882 to share in the British expedition to Egypt, but, finding his efforts fruitless when the existence of the Triple Alliance came to be known, he veered to the English interest and obtained assent in London to the Italian expedition to Massawa.[4] An indiscreet announcement of the limitations of the Triple Alliance contributed to his fall in June 1885, when he was succeeded by Count di Robilant.
Personal life
He married poet
Death
He died in Naples in December 1888.[7]
Works
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- Commentario del Codice di procedura civile per gli Stati sardi (in Italian). Torino: UTET. 1855.
References
- ^ ISBN 0-521-89383-6.
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- Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione dell’Istituto italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente, Sep 1, 1984, Issue. 3, p391-415, 25p.
- ^ "Mancini". Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (in German). Vol. 11 (4th ed.). 1890. p. 178.
- ^ D’Urso, Donato (March 2013). "Teodorico Bonacci ministro della Giustizia". Storia e Futuro, Rivista di Storia e Storiografia Contemporanea. 31. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
- ^ Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, Camera dei Deputati - Portale Storico
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mancini, Pasquale Stanislao". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 554. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the