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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Mazzini, Giuseppe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | MAZZINI, GIUSEPPE [Mazzini, Giuseppe], 1805-72, Italian patriot and revolutionist, an outstanding figure of the Risorgimento. |
 | | His influence on Italian radicals, as well as on revolutionaries throughout Europe, was tremendous. |
 | | His relations with Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Sardinian premier, were strained; although both strove for Italian unification, their ideas were opposite, Cavour relying for help on a foreign power (France), Mazzini believing in revolution and war based on direct popular action. |
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