The Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872) devoted his life to achieving liberty and unity for Italy. He placed the skill of his pen at the service of a vigorous republicanism. Giuseppe Mazzini was born on June 22, 1805, at Genoa. He was a sickly...

ITALIAN NATIONALIST, republican and leading intellectual champion of the movement for Italian unity--the Risorgimento or 'resurgence'--Giuseppe Mazzini was not a popular figure with Italian governments, in his own time or afterwards. The fact that he believed in God, but not in Christianity did...

Of the major figures of the Italian unification movement of the mid-nineteenth century, Giuseppe Mazzini is probably the least well known. Nor was he even one of the most popular men of his time. Monarchists feared his uprisings and labeled him a communist...