Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini (, , ; 22 June 1805 – 10 March 1872) was an Italian politician, journalist, and activist for the
unification of Italy (''Risorgimento'') and spearhead of the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. An
Italian nationalist in the
historical radical tradition and a proponent of a
republicanism of
social-democratic inspiration, Mazzini helped define the modern European movement for
popular democracy in a republican state.
Mazzini's thoughts had a very considerable influence on the Italian and European republican movements, in the
Constitution of Italy, about
Europeanism and more nuanced on many politicians of a later period, among them American president
Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister
David Lloyd George,
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian prime minister
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian independence activist
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, and Israeli prime minister
Golda Meir.
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