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Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader 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. An Ita…
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culture · Italian activist, politician, journalist and philosopher (1805–1872) · politician · philosopher · writer · journalist · literary critic · revolutionary · lawyer · jurist · freedom fighter · also Giuseppe Mazzini, Giorgio Rossi Brown, Joseph Mazzini, Mazzini
Born 22 June 1805 · Died 10 March 1872 · Q187336
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 5 entries
Bergamonews: Giuseppe Mazzini, l’incubo dell’Austria e speranza dei popoli oppressi d’Europa
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Rai News: Lo spettacolo dedicato a Giuseppe Mazzini: "l'inimitabile" portato in scena da Edoardo Sylos Labini
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Ansa: Al Vittoriano l'ultimo ritratto di Giuseppe Mazzini
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Bergamonews: Giuseppe Mazzini, politico, filosofo e patriota: ma riabilitato solo dopo la morte
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Il Sussidiario: Chi è Giuseppe Mazzini/ Dalla “Giovine Italia” alla “Giovine Europa” fino all’arresto dopo aver…
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2023· 2 entries
il Giornale: Alla riscoperta di Giuseppe Mazzini e dei suoi valori
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Repubblica: Giuseppe Mazzini, l'Italia unita come profezia morale
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2022· 1 entry
HuffingtonPost Italia: Giuseppe Mazzini e la scomparsa dei socialisti risorgimentali
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2019· 1 entry
Il Sole 24 Ore: Da Manifattura Sigaro Toscano il nuovo sigaro dedicato a Giuseppe Mazzini
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1942· 1 entry
Franz Borkenau described Mazzini as "that impressive Genoese" and "leader of the Italian underground democratic and unitarian movement"
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1939· 1 entry
By Italian political refugees, took his name and served Italy from exile, as he had
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1872· 3 entries
Died 1872-03-10.
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“Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.”
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Only served to underline the prevailing sense that his political era was over
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1871· 1 entry
Mazzini condemned the radical, anti-religious and revolutionary socialist revolt in France that led to the creation of the short-lived Paris Commune
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1870· 1 entry
Tried to start a rebellion in Sicily and was arrested and imprisoned in Gaeta
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1867· 1 entry
Refused a seat in the Italian Chamber of Deputies
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1866· 1 entry
Italy joined the Austro-Prussian War and gained Venetia
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy (1865–1867).
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1862· 1 entry
Mazzini joined Garibaldi in his failed attempt to free Rome
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1858· 1 entry
Founded another journal in London called Pensiero e azione ("Thought and Action")
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1856· 1 entry
Returned to Genoa to organize a series of uprisings: the only serious attempt was that of Carlo Pisacane in Calabria, which again met a disappointing end
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1847· 2 entries
Mazzini later published a scathing attack against the pope in his Sull'Enciclica di Papa Pio IX ("On the Encyclical of Pope Pius IX") in 1849
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Moved again to London, where he wrote a long "open letter" to Pope Pius IX, whose apparently liberal reforms had gained him a momentary status as a possible paladin of the unification of Italy, but The Pope did not re
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1843· 1 entry
Organized another riot in Bologna, which attracted the attention of two young officers of the Austrian Navy, Attilio and Emilio Bandiera
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1835· 2 entries
In his 1835 publication Fede e avvenire ("Faith and the Future"), Mazzini wrote: "We must rise again as a religious party.
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“We must rise again as a religious party. The religious element is universal and immortal. ... The initiators of a new world, we are bound to lay the foundations of a moral unity, a Humanitarian Catholicism.”
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1831· 1 entry
Mazzini went to Marseille, where he became a popular figure among the Italian exiles
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1827· 1 entry
Mazzini travelled to Tuscany, where he became a member of the Carbonari, a secret association with political purposes
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1826· 1 entry
And initially practised as a "poor man's lawyer"
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1815· 1 entry
By the Congress of Vienna, which had reestablished an oppressive hegemony of a few great powers and blocked the emergence of smaller nations
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1805· 1 entry
Born 1805-06-22.
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