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MANCINI, PASQUALE STANISLAO (1817-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 554 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANCINI, PASQUALE STANISLAO (1817-1888) , See also:Italian jurist and statesman, was See also:born at See also:Castel Baronia, in the See also:province of See also:Avellino, on the 17th of See also:March 1817. At See also:Naples, where he studied See also:law and displayed See also:great See also:literary activity, he rapidly acquired a prominent position, and in 1848 was instrumental in persuading See also:Ferdinand II. to participate in the See also:war against See also:Austria. Twice he declined the offer of a See also:portfolio in the Neapolitan See also:cabinet, and upon the See also:triumph of the reactionary party undertook the See also:defence of the Liberal See also:political prisoners. Threatened with imprisonment in his turn, he fled to See also:Piedmont, where he obtained a university professorship and became See also:preceptor of the See also:crown See also:prince See also:Humbert. In 186o he prepared the legislative unification of See also:Italy, opposed the See also:idea of an See also:alliance between Piedmont and Naples, and, after the fall of the Bourbons, was sent to Naples as See also:administrator of See also:justice, in which capacity he suppressed the religious orders, revoked the See also:Concordat, See also:pro-claimed the right of the See also:state to See also:Church See also:property,. and unified of public instruction in the Rattazzi cabinet, and induced the Chamber to abolish See also:capital See also:punishment. Thereafter, for fourteen years, he devoted himself chiefly to questions of See also:international law and See also:arbitration, but in 1876, upon the See also:advent of the See also:Left to See also:power, became See also:minister of justice in the See also:Depretis cabinet. His Liberalism found expression in the See also:extension of See also:press freedom, the See also:repeal of imprisonment for See also:debt, and the abolition of ecclesiastical See also:tithes. During the See also:Conclave of 1878 he succeeded, by negotiations with See also:Cardinal Pecci (afterwards See also:Leo XIII.), in inducing the Sacred See also:College to remain in See also:Rome, and, after the See also:election of the new See also:pope, arranged for his temporary See also:absence from the Vatican for the purpose of settling private business. Resigning See also:office in March 1878, he resumed the practice of law, and secured the annulment of See also:Garibaldi's See also:marriage. The fall of See also:Cairoli led to Mancini's See also:appointment (1881) to the See also:ministry of See also:foreign affairs in the Depretis See also:administration. The growing See also:desire in Italy for alliance with Austria and See also:Germany did not at first secure his approval; nevertheless he accompanied See also:King Humbert to See also:Vienna and conducted the negotiations which led to the informal See also:acceptance of the Triple Alliance. His desire to retain See also:French confidence was the See also:chief See also:motive of his refusal in See also:July 1882 to See also:share in the See also:British expedition to See also:Egypt, but, finding his efforts fruitless when the existence of the Triple Alliance came to be known, he veered to the See also:English See also:interest and obtained assent in See also:London to the Italian expedition to See also:Massawa.

An indiscreet announcement of the limitations of the Triple Alliance contributed to his fall in See also:

June 1885, when he was succeeded by See also:Count di See also:Robilant. He died in Rome on the 26th of See also:December 1888.

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