Mazzini's house in Genoa, now seat of the Museum of the Risorgimento and of the Mazzinian Institute
Mazzini was born inGenoa, which had recently been annexed by theFirst French Empire. His father Giacomo Mazzini, originally fromChiavari, was a university professor who had adhered toJacobin ideology, while his mother Maria Drago was renowned for her beauty and religiousJansenist fervour. From a very early age, Mazzini showed good learning qualities as well as a precocious interest in politics and literature. He was admitted to university at the age of 14, graduating in law in 1826 and initially practised as a "poor man'slawyer". Mazzini also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist and in the same year wrote his first essay,Dell'amor patrio di Dante ("On Dante's Patriotic Love"), published in 1827, and inspired by feelings ofRomanticism. In 1828–1829, he collaborated with the Genoese newspaperL'Indicatore Genovese which was soon closed by the Piedmontese authorities. He then became one of the leading authors ofL'Indicatore Livornese, published at Livorno byFrancesco Domenico Guerrazzi, until this paper was closed down by the authorities.
An admirer ofFoscolo andByron,[9] he was part of a circle ofRomantic writers,[10] participating in the debate of the time against theclassicists.[9]In 1827, Mazzini travelled toTuscany, where he became a member of theCarbonari, a secret association with political purposes. On 31 October 1830, he was arrested at Genoa and interned at Savona. In early 1831, he was released from prison, but confined to a small hamlet. He chose exile instead, moving to Geneva, Switzerland.[4]
In 1831, Mazzini went toMarseille, where he became a popular figure among the Italian exiles. He was a frequent visitor to the apartment ofGiuditta Bellerio Sidoli, a Modenese widow who became his lover.[11] In August 1832 Giuditta Sidoli gave birth to a boy, almost certainly Mazzini's son, whom she named Joseph Démosthène Adolpe Aristide after members of the family ofDémosthène Ollivier, with whom Mazzini was staying. The Olliviers took care of the child in June 1833 when Giuditta and Mazzini left for Switzerland. The child died in February 1835.[12]
Mazzini organized a new political society calledYoung Italy. It was a secret society formed to promote Italian unification: "One, free, independent, republican nation."[13] Mazzini believed that a popular uprising would create a unified Italy, and would touch off a European-wide revolutionary movement.[11] The group's motto wasGod and the People,[14] and its basic principle was the unification of the several states and kingdoms of the peninsula into a single republic as the only true foundation of Italian liberty. The new nation had to be "One, Independent, Free Republic".
Mazzini's political activism met some success in Tuscany,Abruzzi, Sicily,Piedmont, and his nativeLiguria, especially among several military officers. Young Italy counted about 60,000 adherents in 1833, with branches inGenoa and other cities. In that year Mazzini first attempted insurrection, which would spread fromChambéry (then part of theKingdom of Sardinia),Alessandria,Turin, and Genoa. However, theSavoy government discovered the plot before it could begin and many revolutionaries (includingVincenzo Gioberti) were arrested. The repression was ruthless: 12 participants were executed, while Mazzini's best friend and director of the Genoese section of theGiovine Italia, Jacopo Ruffini, killed himself. Mazzini was tried in absentia and sentenced to death.
Despite this setback, whose victims later created numerous doubts and psychological strife in Mazzini, he organized another uprising for the following year. A group of Italian exiles were to enter Piedmont from Switzerland and spread the revolution there, whileGiuseppe Garibaldi, who had recently joined Young Italy, was to do the same from Genoa. However, the Piedmontese troops easily crushed the new attempt.Denis Mack Smith writes:
In the spring of 1834, while at Bern, Mazzini and a dozen refugees from Italy, Poland, and Germany founded a new association with the grandiose name of Young Europe. Its basic, and equally grandiose idea, was that, as the French Revolution of 1789 had enlarged the concept of individual liberty, another revolution would now be needed for national liberty, and his vision went further because he hoped that in the no doubt distant future free nations might combine to form a loosely federal Europe with some kind of federal assembly to regulate their common interests. ... His intention was nothing less than to overturn the European settlement agreed in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, which had reestablished an oppressive hegemony of a few great powers and blocked the emergence of smaller nations. ... Mazzini hoped, but without much confidence, that his vision of a league or society of independent nations would be realized in his own lifetime. In practice, Young Europe lacked the money and popular support for more than a short-term existence. Nevertheless, he always remained faithful to the ideal of a united continent for which the creation of individual nations would be an indispensable preliminary.[15]
On 28 May 1834, Mazzini was arrested atSolothurn, and exiled from Switzerland. He moved to Paris, where he was again imprisoned on 5 July. He was released only after promising he would move to England. Mazzini, together with a few Italian friends, moved in January 1837 to live in London in very poor economic conditions.
On 30 April 1840, Mazzini reformed theGiovine Italia in London, and on 10 November of the same year, he began issuing theApostolato popolare ("Apostleship of the People").
A succession of failed attempts at promoting further uprisings in Sicily, Abruzzi, Tuscany, andLombardy-Venetia discouraged Mazzini for a long period, which dragged on until 1840. He was also abandoned by Sidoli, who had returned to Italy to rejoin her children. The help of his mother pushed Mazzini to create several organizations aimed at the unification or liberation of other nations, in the wake ofGiovine Italia:[16] "Young Germany", "Young Poland", and "Young Switzerland", which were under the aegis of "Young Europe" (Giovine Europa). He also created an Italian school for poor people active from 10 November 1841 at 5 Greville Street, London.[17] From London he also wrote an endless series of letters to his agents in Europe and South America and made friends withThomas Carlyle and his wifeJane. The "Young Europe" movement also inspired a group of young Turkish army cadets and students who, later in history, named themselves the "Young Turks".
In 1843, he organized another riot in Bologna, which attracted the attention of two young officers of the Austrian Navy,Attilio and Emilio Bandiera. With Mazzini's support, they landed nearCosenza (Kingdom of Naples) but were arrested and executed. Mazzini accused the British government of having passed information about the expeditions to the Neapolitans, and the question was raised in the British Parliament. When it was admitted[18] that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office[19] to the Austrian[20] and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence.[17]
In 1847, he moved again to London, where he wrote a long "open letter" toPope Pius IX, whose apparently liberal reforms had gained him a momentary status as a possible paladin of the unification of Italy, but The Pope did not reply. He also founded the People's International League. By 8 March 1848, Mazzini was in Paris, where he launched a new political association, theAssociazione Nazionale Italiana. In apologising for not being able to attend the first annual celebration of the Leeds Redemption Society (a communitarian experiment) on 7 January 1847 he offered to become a subscriber.[21]
On 7 April 1848, Mazzini reached Milan, whose population had rebelled against the Austrian garrison and established a provisional government. TheFirst Italian War of Independence, started by the Piedmontese kingCharles Albert to exploit the favourable circumstances in Milan, turned into a total failure. Mazzini, who had never been popular in the city because he wanted Lombardy to become a republic instead of joining Piedmont, abandoned Milan. He joined Garibaldi's irregular force at Bergamo, moving to Switzerland with him. Mazzini was one of the founders and leaders of theAction Party, the first organized party in the history of Italy.
On 9 February 1849,a republic was declared in Rome, with Pius IX already having been forced to flee toGaeta the preceding November. On the same day the Republic was declared, Mazzini reached the city. He was appointed, together withCarlo Armellini andAurelio Saffi, as a member of the triumvirate of the new republic on 29 March, becoming soon the true leader of the government and showing good administrative capabilities in social reforms. However, the French troops called by the Pope made clear that the resistance of the Republican troops, led by Garibaldi, was in vain. On 12 July 1849, Mazzini set out for Marseille, from where he moved again to Switzerland.
Last page of a letter from Mazzini toCarl Schurz when both were in London, 1851
Mazzini spent all of 1850 hiding from the Swiss police. In July he founded the associationAmici di Italia ("Friends of Italy") in London, to attract consensus towards the Italian liberation cause. Failed riots in Mantua (1852) and the abortiveMilan Uprising (1853) were a crippling blow for the Mazzinian organization, whose prestige never recovered. He later opposed the alliance signed by Savoy with Austria for theCrimean War. Also in vain was the expedition ofFelice Orsini in Carrara of 1853–1854.
In 1856, he returned to Genoa to organize a series of uprisings: the only serious attempt was that ofCarlo Pisacane in Calabria, which again met a disappointing end. Mazzini managed to escape the police but was condemned to death by default. From this moment on, Mazzini was more of a spectator than a protagonist of theItalian Risorgimento, whose reins were now strongly in the hands of the Savoyard monarchVictor Emmanuel II and his skilled prime minister,Camillo Benso, Conte di Cavour. The latter defined him as "Chief of the Assassins".
In 1858, he founded another journal in London calledPensiero e azione ("Thought and Action"). On 21 February 1859, together with 151 republicans, he signed a manifesto against the alliance between Piedmont and the Emperor of France which resulted in theSecond War of Italian Independence and the conquest of Lombardy. On 2 May 1860, he tried to reach Garibaldi, who was going to launch his famousExpedition of the Thousand[22] in southern Italy. In the same year, he releasedDoveri dell'uomo ("Duties of Man"), a synthesis of his moral, political and social thoughts. In mid-September, he was in Naples, then under Garibaldi's dictatorship, but was invited by the local vice-dictator Giorgio Pallavicino to move away.
The newKingdom of Italy was created in 1861 under the Savoy monarchy. In 1862, Mazzini joined Garibaldi in his failed attempt to free Rome. In 1866, Italy joined theAustro-Prussian War and gainedVenetia. At this time, Mazzini frequently spoke out against how the unification of his country was being achieved. In 1867, he refused a seat in theItalian Chamber of Deputies. In 1870, he tried to start a rebellion in Sicily and was arrested and imprisoned in Gaeta. In October, he was freed in the amnesty declared after the Kingdomfinally took Rome and returned to London in mid-December.
Mazzini died ofpleurisy at the house known now as Domus Mazziniana in Pisa in 1872, aged 66. His body was embalmed byPaolo Gorini. His funeral was held in Genoa, with 100,000 people taking part in it.
AnItalian nationalist, Mazzini was a fervent advocate ofrepublicanism and envisioned a united, free and independent Italy. Unlike his contemporaryGiuseppe Garibaldi, who was also a republican, Mazzini refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the House of Savoy until after the Capture of Rome. He and his followers were sensitive to the question of social justice, starting a dialogue with socialism, and Mazzini in particular finding many affinities with theSaint-Simonians. At the same time, Mazzini was vigorously opposed to Marxism, which for him was "a dreadful perversion of utilitarianism because of its insistence on class interests, especially class struggle, a conflictual vision that could not harmonize with Mazzini's unitarianism".[23] Mazzini also rejected theclassical liberal principles of theAge of Enlightenment based on the doctrine of individualism, which he criticized as "presupposing either metaphysical materialism or political atheism".[24] In the first volume of Carl Landauer'sEuropean Socialism, Mazzini is mentioned alongside Garibaldi as outstanding "Italian revolutionaries".[25][26] Albert Charles Brouse argued that "socialism is found in its entirety in the doctrine of Mazzini",[27] his republicanism being both "democratic and social".[28]
In 1871, Mazzini condemned the radical, anti-religious andrevolutionary socialist revolt in France that led to the creation of the short-livedParis Commune.[29] This causedKarl Marx to refer to Mazzini as a reactionary after 1848.[30][31] It also prompted anarchistMikhail Bakunin to writeThe Political Theology of Mazzini and the International, whose "defence of the International and the Paris Commune caused a stir in Italy and provoked many renunciations of Mazzini and declarations of support for the International in the press", even leading to "the first nationwide increase in membership in the organisation".[32] In an interview by R. Landor from 1871, Marx stated that Mazzini's ideas represented "nothing better than the old idea of a middle-class republic". Marx believed that Mazzini's point of view, especially after theRevolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune, had become reactionary and the proletariat had nothing to do with it.[30]
In another interview, Marx described Mazzini as "that everlasting old ass".[31] In turn, Mazzini described Marx as "a destructive spirit whose heart was filled with hatred rather than love of mankind" and declared that "[d]espite the communist egalitarianism which [Marx] preaches, he is the absolute ruler of his party, admittedly he does everything himself, but he is also the only one to give orders and he tolerates no opposition".[33] While Mazzini saw the Paris Commune as "a socially divisive mistake", many other radicals "followed the socialist lead and mythologised the Commune as a social revolution ('the glorius harbinger of a new society' in Karl Marx's words)". This event "allowed a significant section of the radical left, especially a younger generation of radicals led by the poet and satiristFelice Cavallotti and grouped around the newspaperIl Gazzettino Rosa, to break openly and decisively with both Mazzini and the principles and methods of Mazzinian politics.[34] WhileIl Gazzettino Rosa praised Mazzini as "the 'saviour' and teacher of Italy", it insisted:
We have no more idols, we don't accept abstruse, incomprehensible formulas. ... What we object to in Mazzini is not his opinion in itself, as much as his opinion erected into a system and a political dogma. We are materialists, but we don't make a political school out of our materialism. To us it does not matter if one believes or does not believe in God. ... [I]nstead Mazzini wants to impose a new religion on us.[34]
According toLucy Riall, "the emphasis by younger radicals on the 'social question' was paralleled by an increase in what was called 'internationalist' or socialist activity (mostly Bakuninist anarchism) throughout northern and southern Italy, which was given a big boost by the Paris Commune." The rise of this socialism "represented a genuine challenge to Mazzini and the Mazzinian emphasis on politics and culture, and Mazzinis' death early in 1872 only served to underline the prevailing sense that his political era was over. Garibaldi now broke definitively with Mazzini, and this time he moved to the left of him. He came out entirely in favour of the Paris Commune and internationalism, and his stance brought him much closer to the younger radicals, ... and gave him a new lease on political life. From his support was born an initiative to relaunch a broad party of the radical left."[34]
Photograph of Mazzini by Domenico Lama
For Seamus Flahert,Henry Hyndman, who was an admirer of Mazzini, thought that "Mazzini's greatness ... was obscured for younger socialists by his 'opposition to Marx in the early days of the 'International', and his vigorous condemnation a little later of the Paris Commune", insisting that "Mazzini's conception of the conduct of human life' had been 'a high and noble one'", praising the "No duties without rights" mention in the "General Rules" that Marx composed and passed as "a concession Marx made to Mazzini's followers within the organisation". In his two-volume autobiography, Hyndman spoke at length about Mazzini, even comparing him to Marx.[35]
Christopher Bayly wrote that Mazzini "had arrived at similar conclusions", referring to "theSaint-Simonian ideas of association andCharles Fourier's 'law of attraction'", but "through an emotive process that owed little to rationalisation".[36] As with theChristian socialistGeorge D. Herron, Mazzini's socialism was "essentially a religious and moral revival".[37] Mazzini rejected the Marxist doctrines ofclass struggle andmaterialism, stressing the need forclass collaboration.[29][38] Nonetheless, there was a more radical, socialist interpretation of Mazzini's doctrine within theItalian Republican Party, a Mazzinian party, where "there were many who believed the teachings of the Genoese patriot could be compatible with the Marxist doctrine and ... considered an alliance with the left-wing to be legitimate and desirable".[39]
Mazzini's Italian nationalism has been described as "cosmopolitan patriotism".[40] InSocialism: National or International, first published in 1942,Franz Borkenau described Mazzini as "that impressive Genoese" and "leader of the Italian underground democratic and unitarian movement". About Mazzini and the underground movement, Borkenau further wrote:
Mazzini did a great deal to organize and united this underground movement, known under the name of "Young Italy". He conceived the idea of parallel organizations in other European countries, which should all of them join in a "Young Europe" movement. The plan had only incipient success and Italy remained the sole stronghold of this underground movement. But the idea, though not its practical execution, caught on in other European countries. One reason of Mazzini's partial failure was the emergence of socialism in France and England. France, at any rate, had a strong underground movement, much stronger underLouis-Philippe than previously under theBourbon restoration. But this movement gradually evolved towards the left. Ordinary democrats of the Mazzini type were no longer persecuted in France after 1830. But to the left of them arose more advanced movements.[41]
When he was a socialist,Benito Mussolini harshly criticized Mazzini, "the religious Mazzini in particular", being "particularly opposed to Mazzini's 'sanctification'". After advocating interventionism in World War I and enlisting, Mussolini "found himself immersed in a patriotic atmosphere permeated by Mazzinian references".[42]
Influenced by hisJansenist upbringing, Mazzini's thought is characterized by a strong religious fervour and a deep sense ofspirituality. Adeist who believed indivine providence, Mazzini described himself as a Christian and emphasized the necessity of faith and a relationship with God while vehemently denouncing atheism and rationalism. His motto wasDio e Popolo ("God and People"). Mazzini regarded patriotism as a duty and love for thefatherland as a divinemission, stating that the fatherland was "the home wherein God has placed us, among brothers and sisters linked to us by the family ties of a common religion, history, and language".[43] According toA. James Gregor, "Mazzini's creed for the New Age thus radically distinguished itself from the orthodox Marxism of the nineteenth century. His Socialism was alive with moral purpose, rather than class identity, infused with exalted intent and specifically inspired by a sense of national, rather than class, mission. It saw itself, unabashedly, as a new religion, a 'climb throughphilosophy tofaith'. It was a religion predicated on a 'living faith in one God, one Law, general and immutable ... and one End."[44]
In his 1835 publicationFede e avvenire ("Faith and the Future"), Mazzini wrote: "We must rise again as areligious party. The religious element is universal and immortal. ... The initiators of a new world, we are bound to lay the foundations of a moral unity, a Humanitarian Catholicism."[45] However, Mazzini's relationship with the Catholic Church and thePapacy was not always a kind one. While he initially supportedPope Pius IX upon his election, writing an open letter to him in 1847, Mazzini later published a scathing attack against the pope in hisSull'Enciclica di Papa Pio IX ("On the Encyclical of Pope Pius IX") in 1849. Although some of his religious views were at odds with the Catholic Church and the Papacy, with his writings often tinged withanti-clericalism, Mazzini also criticizedProtestantism, stating that it is "divided and subdivided into a thousand sects, all founded on the rights of individual conscience, all eager to make war on one another, and perpetuating that anarchy of beliefs which is the sole true cause of the social and political disturbances that torment the peoples of Europe".[46]
Mazzini rejected the concept of the "rights of man" which had developed during the Age of Enlightenment, arguing instead that individual rights were a duty to be won through hard work, sacrifice and virtue, rather than "rights" which were intrinsically owed to man. Mazzini outlined his thought in hisDoveri dell'uomo ("Duties of Man"), published in 1860. Similarly, Mazzini formulated a concept known as "thought and action" in which thought and action must be joined together and every thought must be followed by action, therefore rejectingintellectualism and the notion of divorcing theory from practice.[47]
In "Duties of Man", Mazzini called for recognition ofwomen's rights. After his many encounters with political philosophers in England, France and across Europe, Mazzini had decided that the principle of equality between men and women was fundamental to building a truly democratic Italian nation. He called for the end of women's social and judicial subordination to men. Mazzini's vigorous position heightened attention to gender among European thinkers who were already considering democracy and nationalism. He helped intellectuals see women's rights not merely as a peripheral topic, but rather as a fundamental goal necessary for the regeneration of old nations and the rebirth of new ones.[48] Mazzini admiredJessie White Mario, who was described byGiuseppe Garibaldi as the "Bravest Woman of Modern Time". Mario joined Garibaldi'sRedshirts for the 1859–1860 campaign during theSecond Italian War of Independence. As a correspondent for theDaily News, she witnessed almost every fight that had brought on the unification of Italy.[49]
Mazzini's socio-political thought has been referred to asMazzinianism and his worldview as theMazzinian conception, terms that were later used by Mussolini andItalian fascists, such asGiovanni Gentile, to describe their political ideology and spiritual conception of life.[24][47][50][51]
In the first volume of hisReminiscences,Carl Schurz gives a biographical sketch of Mazzini and recalls two meetings he had with him when they were both in London in 1851.[52] While the book10,000 Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow lists Mazzini as a Mason and even a Past Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy, articles on the Grand Orient of Italy's own website question whether he was ever a regular Mason and do not list him as a Past Grand Master.[53]
The antifascistMazzini Society, founded in the United States in 1939 by Italian political refugees, took his name and served Italy from exile, as he had.
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