Giuseppe Mazzini

Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini
	Photograph of Mazzini by Domenico Lama
Triumvir of the Rome
	In office; 5 February 1849 – 3 July 1849 Serving with Aurelio Saffi, Carlo Armellini
Preceded by	Aurelio Saliceti
Succeeded by	Aurelio Saliceti
Personal details
Born	22 June 1805; Genoa, Gênes, French Empire
Died	10 March 1872 (aged 66); Pisa, Italy
Political party	Young Italy (1831–48); Action Party (1848–67)
Alma mater	University of Genoa
Profession	Lawyer; Journalist; Writer;
	Philosophy career
Era	19th-century
School	Romanticism; Providentialism
Main interests	History, theology, politics
Notable ideas	Pan-Europeanism, irridentism, popular democracy, class collaboration
	Influences Plato; Ugo Foscolo[1]; Marquis de Condorcet[1]; Jean de Sismondi[1]; Lord Byron[1]; François-René de Chateaubriand; Joseph de Maistre; Saint-Simon[1]; De Lamennais; Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Carlo Cattaneo; ;
	Influenced Italian republicans; Giuseppe Garibaldi; Giovanni Gentile; Frederic Harrison[2]; George Holyoake[3]; Benito Mussolini; Pietro Nenni; Carlo Rosselli; Woodrow Wilson; Sun Yat-sen; ;
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Giuseppe Mazzini (22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872) was an Italian patriot, philosopher, Freemason and politician. His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.

Criticisms

Karl Marx, on an interview by R. Landor in 1871, said that Mazzini's ideas represents "nothing better than the old idea of a middle-class republic." Marx believed, especially after the Revolutions of 1848, that this middle class point of view had become reactionary and the proletariat had nothing to do with it.

References

Romani, Roberto (2018). Sensibilities of the Risorgimento: Reason and Passions in Political Thought. BRILL. pp. 147–157.
Finn, Margot C. (2003). After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874. Cambridge University Press. p. 200.
Finn, Margot C. (2003). After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874. Cambridge University Press. pp. 170–176.

Other websites

Biography at cronologia.it Archived 2007-04-20 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)

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[Romani-1] Romani, Roberto (2018). Sensibilities of the Risorgimento: Reason and Passions in Political Thought. BRILL. pp. 147–157.

[2] Finn, Margot C. (2003). After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874. Cambridge University Press. p. 200.

[3] Finn, Margot C. (2003). After Chartism: Class and Nation in English Radical Politics 1848-1874. Cambridge University Press. pp. 170–176.