Ludovico Manin

Ludovico Manin was the last Doge of Venice, serving from 1789 to 1797. As Doge, he was the chief magistrate and symbolic leader of the Venetian Republic, a powerful maritime state in Italy. His tenure ended when Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces invaded, leading to Venice’s fall and the abolition of its republic. Manin’s leadership marked the end of centuries of Venetian independence, and he is remembered as a figure representing the decline of a once-great maritime empire in the face of revolutionary change in Europe.