Pasquale Stanislao Mancini
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The Honourable Pasquale Mancini |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 29 May 1881 – 29 June 1885 |
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| Prime Minister | Agostino Depretis |
| Preceded by | Benedetto Cairoli |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Felice Nicolis |
| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 25 March 1876 – 24 March 1878 |
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| Prime Minister | Agostino Depretis |
| Preceded by | Paolo Onorato Vigliani |
| Succeeded by | Raffaele Conforti |
| Minister of Public Education | |
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In office 4 March 1862 – 31 March 1862 |
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| Prime Minister | Urbano Rattazzi |
| Preceded by | Francesco de Sanctis |
| Succeeded by | Carlo Matteucci |
| Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies | |
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In office 18 February 1861 – 26 December 1888 |
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| Constituency | Naples |
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Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 17 March 1817 Castel Baronia, Two Sicilies |
| Died | 26 December 1888 (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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