The
Rimini Proclamation was a proclamation on 30 March 1815 by
Joachim Murat, who had been made king of Naples by
Napoleon I. Murat had just
declared war on Austria and used the proclamation to call on Italians to revolt against their Austrian occupiers and to show himself as a backer of Italian independence, in an attempt to find allies in his desperate battle to hang onto his throne. It began:
The proclamation impressed
Alessandro Manzoni, who wrote a poem later that year entitled
Il proclama di Rimini, but he left it unfinished after Murat's military campaign failed.