Manfredo Fanti, an Italian general, born in Carpi, Modena, about 1810, died April 5, 1865. He took part in 1831 in the unsuccessful insurrection against the Austrians, served afterward in the French army, passed into the royal service of Spain in 1835, and returned at the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 to Italy, where he became a major general in the Sardinian army. In 1855 he commanded one of the four brigades sent to the Crimea, and in the war of 1859 took part as lieutenant general in the battles of Magenta and Solferino. In January, 1860, he accepted the portfolios of war and of marine in the cabinet of Count Cavour, in February became senator, and in September commanded the expedition against the Papal States. He left the cabinet in 1861, and in 1862 became commandant general of the military department of Florence.