On this date in 1848, Venetian attorney Daniele Manin, architect of the popular uprising against the Austrian occupation, was thrown in prison for agitating for self-rule.
Manin, by the way, is entombed on the outside of the Basilica of San Marco, in the Piazzetta dei Leoncini. His folks are there too, in one of Catholicism's holiest sites, noteworthy since his mother was Jewish.
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