 pasquale stanislao mancini (march 17, 1817 - december 26, 1888) was an italian jurist and statesman. ==biography== thumb|200px|pasquale stanislao mancini, date unknown 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. during the conclave of 1878 he succeeded, by negotiations with cardinal pecci (afterwards leo xiii), in inducing the sacred college to remain in rome, and, after the electi
1817_births 1888_deaths Foreign_ministers_of_Italy Italian_lawyers Members_of_the_Institut_de_Droit_International People_from_the_Province_of_Avellino Politicians_of_Campania