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Note on. Guiseppe mazzini |
| Answer» (i) Giuseppe Mazzini was born in Genoa on June 22nd, 1807 in a middleclass family.(ii) He was a patriot, Italian revolutionary, founder of Young Italy and animportant figure in liberal nationalism.(iii) He was one of the three revolutionaries who made a significantcontribution in Italian unification. His efforts led to the unification ofItaly.(iv) In 1830, he joined the revolutionary Carbonari (a secret association withpolitical purposes) for which he was arrested soon and put in jail.(v) There he organised a new political society called Young Italy, whose basicprinciple was the union of the several states and kingdoms into onerepublic.(vi) He founded underground societies like Young Italy in Marseilles, andYoung Europe in Berne.(vii) To evoke people’s reaction Mazzini wrote several essays that voiced theinjustice to the working class such as the peasants, professionals,artists, and intellectuals.(viii) He was elected as a member of a constituent assembly and acquired theresponsibility of framing a constitution for the Roman Republic. | |