Volume 42, Number 4 · March 2, 1995
Saint of Nationalism
By Derek Beales
Mazzini
by Denis Mack Smith
Yale University Press, 302 pp., $30.00
Giuseppe Mazzini has a street named after him in every Italian town. He ranks with Victor Emanuel II, Count Cavour the statesman, and Giuseppe Garibaldi the guerrilla leader as a founding father of united Italy. Yet he boasted neither exalted birth nor military skill; he held office for only a few months; and for most of his life he lived secretively in exile. His weapons were his personality, his plots, and his pen.
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