Monument to Niccolò Tommaseo in Campo Santo Stefano

Tommaseo was a linguist, a writer, a defendant of the free press and a precursor of the Italian irredentism, a movement for the liberation of Italian cities from foreign occupation. Thanks to his beliefs and his works, Tommaseo was named Ministry of Education for the Republic of San Marco in 1848, when Venetians temporary freed themselves from the Austrian occupation.

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