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Tag: Guiseppe Mazzini

  • Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini

    Oath taken by members of Young Italy, 1831 | Giuseppi Mazzini

    Introduction In the visions of nationhood and association professed by Italian revolutionary, Guiseppi Mazzini, I find inspiration, and freedom from limitations in the U.S. American perspective within the larger historical contexts of Republicanism. After the failures of the Carbonari, Mazzini founds Young Italy in his hopes for Italy’s unification. Mazzini saw the American Republic as…

  • Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)

    Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)

    Before Sono Tornato and Vincere A few months ago, I ordered from Amazon the film Il Giovane Mussolini (1993), renamed “Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini.” I wanted to see what difference the film was to the later more psychological interpretation of Mussolini’s mind in Vincere (2010). In The Young Mussolini, Benito Mussolini is…