Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini
Mazzini in 1860
Triumvir of the Roman Republic
In office
5 February – 3 July 1849
Preceded byAurelio Saliceti
Succeeded byAurelio Saliceti
Personal details
Born(1805-06-22)22 June 1805
Genoa, Gênes, First French Empire
Died10 March 1872(1872-03-10) (aged 66)
Pisa, Kingdom of Italy
NationalityItalian
Political party
  • Young Italy (1831–1848)
  • Italian National Association (1848–1853)
  • Action (1853–1867)
Alma materUniversity of Genoa
Profession
  • Lawyer
  • journalist
  • writer

Philosophy career
Notable workAn essay on the duties of man
Era
Region
School
Main interests
  • History
  • theology
  • politics
Notable ideas
Pan-Europeanism, irredentism (Italian), popular democracy, class collaboration
Signature

Giuseppe Mazzini (UK: /mætˈsni/,[1] US: /mɑːtˈ-, mɑːdˈzni/,[2][3] Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe matˈtsiːni]; 22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872)[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 Constitution of Italy, about Europeanism and more nuanced on many politicians of a later period, among them American president Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, Mahatma Gandhi, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian independence activist Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Israeli prime minister Golda Meir.[7][8]

  1. ^ "Mazzini, Giuseppe". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Mazzini". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Mazzini". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  4. ^ Giuseppe Monsagrati (2008). Mazzini, Giuseppe (in Italian). Vol. 72. Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 17 October 2021. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Viroli, Maurizio, ed. (2023), "The Prophetic Voices of the Risorgimento and the Anti-Fascist Resistance", Prophetic Times: Visions of Emancipation in the History of Italy, Cambridge University Press, pp. 167–238, doi:10.1017/9781009233170.004, ISBN 978-1-009-23321-7
  6. ^ Swinburne, Algernon Charles (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne. Delphi Classics. ISBN 978-1909496699.
  7. ^ King, Bolton (2019). The Life of Mazzini. Good Press.
  8. ^ Kumar, M. (2006). History and Gender in Savarkar's Nationalist Writings. Social Scientist, 34(11/12), pp 33–50.