The Historian, March 22nd, 1995
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 firebrand. However, Marxists thought of Mazzini as a bourgeois reactionary. Liberal conservatives such as Cavour did not trust him and branded him a threat to the cause of Italian unification, while Mazzini's relations with Garibaldi were tenuous at best. These diverse opinions of Mazzini partially explain why he is not commonly mentioned ...
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