Giuseppe Mazzini

This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.Mrs Browning

In 1879, while in Ireland for a family holiday, ELV read a book about Giuseppe Mazzini which instilled in her a general passion for revolutionary causes. Her ensuing frustration with the state...

ELV 's many sources of inspiration for this novel were gathered over a long period of years. At the age of fifteen she came across a book about Giuseppe Mazzini which captured her imagination and...

By 1867 ACS was deeply interested in republicanism, particularly French and Italian politics. In March of that year he met Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini . In later years, his political opinions veered gradually in the...

MS is often said to have lapsed into conservatism with her husband's death. She did indeed break with the Philosophic Radicals, and was charged by Trelawny with backing down. During the violence preceding the Reform...

As well as immersing herself in Rome's spiritual life (which was particularly intense following the recent papal election of Pius IX ), FN also took an interest in national politics and the revolutionary ideas of...

At the age of twenty-four, JWM (then Jessie White) embarked on a propaganda lecture tour of northern England and Scotland to raise money and support for the cause of Italian nationalist Giuseppe Mazzini .

Jessie White (later JWM ) was still touring England, giving lectures to aid the cause of Italian patriot Giuseppe Mazzini .

JWM published her comprehensive review of the Risorgimento in the form of a biography of Giuseppe Mazzini , Della vita di Giuseppe Mazzini, in Italian.

JWM made her literary debut in Eliza Cook's Journal, but it was her involvement in the Italian Risorgimento (sometimes as a spy) that fostered her career as a journalist, translator, propagandist, lecturer, and biographer...

While visiting Italy, JWM stayed with Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning at Casa Guidi. (Years later they had an unpleasant public debate over Italian politics.) She met Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon in Rome, beginning...

In September 1856, Giuseppe Mazzini sent Jessie White a letter entreating her to raise funds for the Italian cause. Soon after this she followed Mazzini to Italy, hoping to gain instruction from him.

The groom spoke no almost no English. The couple had been engaged before their arrest, but most of their courtship played out by letter during their incarceration. Though Alberto shared his wife's commitment to the...

The newlyweds took a house in London, near Mazzini 's lodgings.

Orsini greatly disliked her translation, and thought she had added a Mazzinian bias to his prose, which was undesirable in view of the fact that Orsini and Mazzini had long since diverged in opinion...