Question

Write a note on Giuseppe Mazzini.

Answer 1

Hint:
1. Instead of many different states, many controlled by foreign powers that existed until the 19th century, his efforts helped bring about an independent and united Italy.
2. His father, Giacomo Mazzini, originally from Chiavari, was a university professor who adhered to the philosophy of Jacobin, while his mother, Maria Drago, was known for her beauty and Jansenist religious fervor.

Complete answer:
-He was an Italian politician, a writer, an Italian unification activist and a spearhead of the new Italian movement.
-In the historical radical tradition, he is an Italian nationalist and a proponent of social-democratic republicanism. Mazzini helped define the new European popular democracy movement in the republican state.
-Mazzini was born in Genoa, then part of the First French Empire under the rule of the Ligurian Republic.
-An Italian nationalist, Mazzini was a fervent supporter of republicanism and envisaged an Italy that was unified, free and autonomous. Mazzini refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the House of Savoy until after the Capture of Rome, unlike his contemporary Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was also a Republican.

Note: In "Duties of Man", his many experiences in England, France and across Europe with political philosophers, Mazzini determined that the concept of equality between men and women was central to the creation of a genuinely democratic Italian republic. He called for the termination of the social and judicial subordination of women to males.