biography
pronunciation:
[matseenee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1805–72)
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| biography:
| Patriot and republican, born in Genoa, NW Italy. He was trained as a lawyer, and became an ardent liberal, founding the Young Italy Association (1833). Expelled from France, he travelled Europe advocating republicanism and insurrection. In 1848 he became involved in the Lombard revolt, and collaborated with Garibaldi in attempting to keep the patriotic struggle alive in the Alps. In 1849 he became one of the triumvirate governing the Roman Republic, overthrown after two months by French intervention. During the events of 1859–60 he and his supporters worked strenuously but vainly to make the new Italy a republic. |
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