Mazzini biography
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Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and fascinating personality, his ideas were influential throughout Europe. Yet successive Italian governments, fearing the consequences of his belief in democracy and revolution, deliberately obscured his achievements: there have been few modern studies of Mazzini and no biography in English since
Denis Mack Smith's major new account reexamines Mazzini's ideological impact and his place in the political and intellectual world of the mid-nineteenth century. Based on profound scholarship and immense archival research, the book recreates Mazzini's long years of poverty and exile in London and the networks of friends, associates, and enemies that brought him into contact with the greatest europeisk figures of the age, among them Marx, Carlyle, Mill, and Bakunin. Mazzini is revea
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Giuseppe Mazzini
& Young Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini biography
Risorgimento ~ Young Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini was born in Genoa on June 22nd, into a mittpunkt class family where his father was a professor of anatomy. Mazzini was extremely delicate as an infant, and as a young child, giving his parents cause for concern. From a young age he showed signs of intellectual precocity possessing a tremendous interest in books and spending many hours reading.Mazzini entered the University of Genoa at the age of fourteen where he studied law but was also involved in literary pursuits. During these student days many associates were impressed bygd his being possessed of gentle, generous, and noble character.
In April a large number of would-be revolutionaries, who had not prevailed in an insurrection against Austria, sought refuge in Genoa. Mazzini felt that his spirit was crushed by the impossibility he felt of ever conceiving by what means to free his country from foreign rule. From that time
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Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher
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Giuseppe Mazzini (,[1],[2][3]Italian:[dʒuˈzɛppematˈtsiːni]; 22 June – 10 March )[4] was an Italian politician, journalist, and activist for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century.[5] An Italian nationalist in the historical radical tradition and a proponent of a republicanism of social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.[6]
Mazzini's thoughts had a very considerable influence on the Italian and European republican movements, in the C