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	(1805-06-22)22 June 1805 Genoa, Gênes, French Empire
Died	10 March 1872(1872-03-10) (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 Marquis de Condorcet Jean de Sismondi Lord Byron François-René de Chateaubriand Joseph de Maistre Saint-Simon De Lamennais Jean-Jacques Rousseau Carlo Cattaneo
Influenced Italian republicans Giuseppe Garibaldi Giovanni Gentile Frederic Harrison George Holyoake 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 Italian unification to replace the several separate states, many of which were dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for 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 the middle-class point of view had become reactionary and that the proletariat had nothing to do with it.

Other websites

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