Who was Giuseppe Mazzini.... Explain his role in the unification of Italy
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Mazzini organized a new political society called Young Italy. Young Italy was a secret society formed to promote Italian unification: "One, free, independent, republican nation." Mazzini believed that a popular uprising would create a unified Italy, and would touch off a European-wide revolutionary movement.
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Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary, who played an important role in promoting the idea of unification of Italian state. He was born in 1807. At the age of 20,he joined a secret society at Carbonari. He was sent into an exile at the age of 24 in 1831 for attempting a revolution in Liguria. He came to France in 1830 and founded two secret underground societies, under the name of 'Young Italy' and 'Young Europe', which aimed at infusing the spirit of fraternity among Italians. Their members were from Poland, France, Italy and the German states. Mazzini roamed in England and France, but continued writing articles, addressing and inspiring his countrymen. Mazzini laid the foundation of Italy's unification and inculcated the thoughts of patriotism, duty and sacrifice among Italians. He was a poet, an idealistic thinker and a pioneer of revolution.