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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 976

Autographs
Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini
1843 (2 May) A.L.S. to D.M. Kemble in London, written in his small handwriting and is signed "Joseph Mazzini". Photo

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805 – 1872) was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states. In 1843 he organized a riot in Bologna, which attracted the attention of two young officers of the Austrian Navy, Attilio and Emilio Bandiera. With Mazzini's support, they landed near Cosenza (Kingdom of Naples), but were arrested and executed. Mazzini accused the British government of having passed information about the expeditions to the Neapolitans, and question was raised in the British Parliament. When it was admitted that his private letters had indeed been opened, and its contents revealed by the Foreign Office[ to the Austrian and Neapolitan governments, Mazzini gained popularity and support among the British liberals, who were outraged by such a blatant intrusion of the government into his private correspondence

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