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Vincenzo Bellini
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Daniele Manin became the political leader of Venice's revolution in 1848. Born in the city in 1804, he worked as a lawyer and supported opposition to Austrian rule. His release from prison during the uprising helped make him a public focus of the movement.
The new republic faced the practical demands of defense, finance, and diplomacy. Venice held out into 1849, but siege, hunger, and disease weakened resistance. After surrender to Austria, Manin left for exile in Paris.
There he reconsidered how Italian independence might be achieved. Though associated with republican government, he came to support cooperation with the Savoy monarchy if it could deliver national unity. This position helped prepare the ground for the Italian National Society and separated him from more uncompromising republican strategies.
Manin died in 1857. His career shows that the political choices of the Risorgimento were not fixed identities: the experience of defeat could lead a republican leader to accept a monarchy as the instrument of a different, shared objective.
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