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Pasquale Stanislao Mancini

The Honourable
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
(1817-03-17)17 March 1817
Castel Baronia, Two Sicilies
Died 26 December 1888(1888-12-26) (aged 71)
Naples, Italy
Political party Historical Left
Spouse(s) Laura Beatrice Mancini (m. 1840–69); her death
Children 11 children
Alma mater University of Naples Federico II
Profession Jurist, statesman
Religion Roman Catholicism

Pasquale Stanislao Mancini, 8th Marquess of Fusignano (17 March 1817 – 26 December 1888) was an Italian jurist and statesman.

Mancini was born in Castel Baronia, in the province of Avellino. He became well established in intellectual circles in Naples, editing and publishing a number of newspapers and journals, and gained a reputation in law after the 1841 publication of his correspondence with Terenzio Mamiani on the right to punish. He did not attend university, but rather was educated privately, and was granted a law degree in 1844 by a special exemption. He married poet Laura Beatrice Mancini in 1840, and she ran a literary salon for liberal-minded Neapolitans out of their house.

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 Piedmont, where he obtained a professorship at the University of Turin and became preceptor of the crown prince Humbert. In 1860 he prepared the legislative unification of Italy, opposed the idea of an alliance between Piedmont and Naples, and, after the fall of the Bourbons, was sent to Naples as administrator of justice, in which capacity he suppressed the religious institutes, revoked the Concordat, proclaimed the right of the state to Church property, and unified civil and commercial jurisprudence.

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 and arbitration, 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.


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