History Today, June 1st, 2005
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 not endear him to churchmen, his radical views on liberating women and the poor offended conservatives and his criticisms of Karl Marx annoyed Communists and socialists. He was born in Genoa, where his father was professor of pathology at the university. After the fall of Napoleon, Italy was a patchwo...
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