MANCFNI, a Roman faraily, beginning historically in the 14th c. with the name of Tietro Omni-Santi, surnamed Mancini dei Luci. Cardinal Francesco Maria Mancini, -who married a sister of cardinal Mazarin in 1634, is the next distinguished member. His daughters, noted for their beauty and their intrigues, are spoken of by Michelet as "a battalion of Mazarin's nieces."—LAunE, 1635-57, was a favorite of Louis XIV. when prince.—OLYMPE, 1639-1708, of the "black soul and black face," a mischievous beauty, was his mistress, who was married to an Italian and bore 8 children, was charged with poisoning. her husband, aud became a wanderer out of France, and when in Spain was suspected of poisoning Louise, the wife of king Charles II. Prince Eugene of Savoy -was one of her five sons.-31Anw, 1640-1715, another mistress of Louis XIV., who came near marrying her. She married prince Collonna in 1661, bore several children, guar Teled with and left her husband, returned to Paris in want, was placed in a convent by Louis XIV., and subsequently led an adventurous life.—HORTENSE, 1646-99, a beauty, courted by Charles II. of England, by marshal Turenne, and Charles de Lorraine, was married to Armand de la Porte, marquis de Meilleraye, who soon after assumed the title of duke of 3Iazarin on the death of the cardinal. She, too, was supposed to have been too free not only with Louis XIV., but with her former lovers; left her husbrind, ontered the court of Charles Emanuel of Savoy; and ou his death was expelled by his widow. She then visited Germany, and then Charles II. of England, who was soon again one of her suitors, fixed au annuity upon her, and allowed her a home in the palace of St. James.—MARIE ANNE, 1649-1714. went to Paris in 1655, was married to Maurice Godefroi de la Tour, due de Bouillon, in 1662; soon left and afterwards rejoined her husband; became the patroness of La Fontaine, and made her home a literary center, -where MoHere, Corneille, and other celebrities met. She, too. became suspected of the
use of poisons, and fled Paris in 1680, lived 8 years in England, 2 in Venice and Rome, and returned to Paris in 1690, where her society was courted to the last. Site seems to have been the least disreputable, or vile, of a beautiful family which, if living in the present day, would be denizens of other places than the palaces of the rulers of great nations.
MANCrNI, PASQUALE STANiSLA,US, b. Naples about 1815. He became a professor of law quite young at the university of Naples; deputy to the Neapolitan parliament iu 1848, and editor of a famous protest of the liberal party against the acts of Ferdinand Self-exiled to escape the hospitable dungeons of Ferdinand he lied to Turin, where le achieved a brilliant success at the bar, and was made law professor of the university of that city. He made a specialty of teaching the principle of nationalities as distin zuished from dynasties. He was member of the Piedmontese chamber of deputies when Garibaldi's movements cut the knot of Neapolitan slavery; and he became minis ter of justice and ecclesiastical affairs in the provisional government. He promulgated an order to break up the mendicant and " contemplative" orders; but public opinion was not ripe for it, and it was not executed. He was deputy to the first Italian parlia ment in 1861, and became one of the leaders of the center, eonsorteria; one of the most brilliant orators of the parliament, and an active promoter of Italian unity and progress.