Giuseppe Mazzini
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Philosophy
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Nationalism
- Curriculum: Italian History, 19th Century European History
Article abstract: Mazzini was the most influential leader of the Risorgimento—the Italian national unification movement. His political activities and philosophy were carried beyond Italy and inspired fledgling nationalist and democratic reform movements throughout the world.
Early Life
Giuseppe Mazzini was born in 1805, the son of a well-to-do Genoese family. A sickly but precocious child, he could scarcely walk until the age of six. His mother, Maria Drago, practiced the morally rigorous Catholic doctrine of Jansenism and provided the young Mazzini...
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