The way is now paved for Manin, Daniele, who was no relation, but a poor Jewish boy to whom a Manin had stood as godfather.

Daniele was born in 1804.

In 1805 the Peace of Pressburg was signed, and Venice, which had passed to Austria in 1798, was taken from Austria and united to Napoleon's Italian kingdom, with Eugene Beauharnais, the Emperor's brother-in-law, as ruler under the title Prince of Venice.

In 1807 Napoleon visited the city and at once decreed a number of improvements on his own practical sensible lines.

He laid out the Giardini Pubblici; he examined the ports and improved them; he revised the laws.