Young Italy

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Young Italy was a 19th-century nationalist political movement founded by Giuseppe Mazzini that sought to unify the Italian states into a single republic and played a central role in the Italian Risorgimento.

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instanceOf nationalist organization
political movement
secret society
country Italy
dissolved mid-1840s
founder Giuseppe Mazzini
goal establishment of a united Italian republic
unification of the Italian states
hasPart local cells
headquartersLocation Genoa
Marseille
surface form: Marseilles
historicalPeriod 19th century
ideology Italian nationalism
republicanism
inception 1831
influenced Italian Risorgimento
surface form: Italian unification

republican movements in Europe
inspired Young Europe
Young Germany
Young Poland
inspiredBy French Revolution
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
membership primarily young men under 40
method clandestine organization
insurrection
propaganda
motto God and the People
movement Italian Risorgimento
notableMember Agostino Ruffini
Carlo Pisacane
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Goffredo Mameli
operatedInPoliticalTerritory Kingdom of Sardinia
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (by unification of Naples and Sicily)
surface form: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Lombardy–Venetia
Papal States
opposedTo Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
surface form: Austrian Empire

Papal temporal power
absolutist monarchies in Italy
politicalPosition left-wing
publication Giovine Italia (journal)
religiousView secular with strong civic religion of the nation
significantEvent failed insurrections of 1833–1834
participation in 1848 revolutions in Italy

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Giuseppe Mazzini notableIdea Young Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini founded Young Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini founded Young Italy
this entity surface form: Giovine Italia
Carbonari inspired Young Italy
Abhinav Bharat Society inspiredBy Young Italy
Abhinav Bharat Society namedAfter Young Italy
this entity surface form: Giuseppe Mazzini’s “Young Italy” concept