Introduction
Pippo: The Family Years (1805-1819)
Fantasio: The Years of Apprenticeship (1819-1830)
In Love and Anger: France (1831-1833)
Arms and War: The Swiss Years (1833-1837)
Dark Before Dawn: England (1837-1848)
What Has Not Been Must Be (1848-1853)
After the Triumphant Fact (1853-1860)
The Monarchy's Outlaw (1860-1872)
Aftermath
Bibliographical Essay
Index
A major new interpretation of Italian patriot and revolutionary Giuseppe Mazzini.
ROLAND SARTI is Professor of History and former department chair at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of numerous works, including Fascism and the Industrial Leadership in Italy, 1919-1940, The Ax Within: Italian Fascism in Action, and Long Live the Strong: A History of Rural Society in the Apennine Mountains.
?Based largely on the national edition of Mazzini's letters...Sarti
presents a skillfully nuanced and fascinating portrait of that 'man
for all seasons, ' revealing myriad details that have escaped other
biographers of this complex figure, who still informs Europeanists,
feminists, and decolonization movements in the 20th century....
Sarti's reading of Mazzini's contacts with workers and artisans,
his belief in self-help and the power of education, and his support
for free schools for workers is interesting. Competitive
relationships with rival revolutionaries like Buonarroti, the
stormy associations with his followers and Garibaldi, and his
liaisons with Giuditta Sidoli and Susan Tancioni are expertly
interwoven with lucid analysis of Mazzinian thought and action.
This is a splendid biography, adorned with haunting portrait photos
and a thorough bibliographical essay. Recommended for all
libraries.?-Choice
?In this well-written, balanced and lively biography, Roland Sarti
shows himself sympathetic towards Mazzini....Despite disagreeing
with many of Sarti's conclusions, I can only recommend this book.
For the expert there is plenty of fascinating detail and novel
insight, yet undergraduates or even general readers with little
knowledge of the Risorgimento will thoroughly enjoy it.?-Journal of
Modern Italian Studies
?More clearly than any previous biographer, Sarti confronts the
contradictions that lay at the heart of the man and his ideas,
which ultimately explain why Mazzini's image remained more powerful
in death than in life and left so many different
legacies.?-American Historical Review
"In this well-written, balanced and lively biography, Roland Sarti
shows himself sympathetic towards Mazzini....Despite disagreeing
with many of Sarti's conclusions, I can only recommend this book.
For the expert there is plenty of fascinating detail and novel
insight, yet undergraduates or even general readers with little
knowledge of the Risorgimento will thoroughly enjoy it."-Journal of
Modern Italian Studies
"More clearly than any previous biographer, Sarti confronts the
contradictions that lay at the heart of the man and his ideas,
which ultimately explain why Mazzini's image remained more powerful
in death than in life and left so many different
legacies."-American Historical Review
"Based largely on the national edition of Mazzini's letters...Sarti
presents a skillfully nuanced and fascinating portrait of that 'man
for all seasons, ' revealing myriad details that have escaped other
biographers of this complex figure, who still informs Europeanists,
feminists, and decolonization movements in the 20th century....
Sarti's reading of Mazzini's contacts with workers and artisans,
his belief in self-help and the power of education, and his support
for free schools for workers is interesting. Competitive
relationships with rival revolutionaries like Buonarroti, the
stormy associations with his followers and Garibaldi, and his
liaisons with Giuditta Sidoli and Susan Tancioni are expertly
interwoven with lucid analysis of Mazzinian thought and action.
This is a splendid biography, adorned with haunting portrait photos
and a thorough bibliographical essay. Recommended for all
libraries."-Choice
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