How accurate is it to say that Mazzini’s ideas had a limited political and social impact on progress towards unity by 1849?

Question 1

how do you address this question?

Answer 1

Accurate and Not accurate

Question 2

What about young Italy (1831-36) mean that Mazzini’s ideas were limited in their impact on progress towards unity?

Answer 2

it was limited to a narrow political base - middle and upper class liberal intellectual men

Question 3

Give an example of some of the middle class men who were involved in Young Italy

Answer 3

Badiero Brothers who were shot for attempting a revolt in Calabria

Question 4

What happened to most o young Italy’s actions?

Answer 4

They ended in failure

Question 5

What were the two alternatives to Mazziniian ideas?

Answer 5

1) Consitutional monarch under Charles Albert

2) NeoGuelphism

Question 6

Who founded NeoGuelphism?

Answer 6

Gioberti

Question 7

Who, a member of the monarchist group the ‘Albertisti’, argued in favour of a consitutional monetary?

Answer 7

Cesare Balbo

Question 8

What group did Mazzini Alienate?

Answer 8

lower classes: 90% substance peasant farmers Mazzini was too elitist

Question 9

What does Mazzini’s blatant disregard for the peasants show?

Answer 9

That his ideas were never going to cause social unity, and that no progress had occurred socially.

Question 10

What was Mazzini not interested in that further isolated the lower classes?

Answer 10

Land reform

Question 11

When did Mazzini have a failed revolt in Genoa?

Answer 11

1831

Question 12

Which revolt was the first revolt that garibaldi got involved in?

Answer 12

Genoa 1831

Question 13

When was the failed Mazziniian uprising in Savoy?

Answer 13

1834

Question 14

When were the Bandiero Brothers shot by peasants?

Answer 14

1844

Question 15

form which country did his radical ideas stop him getting support?

Answer 15

France

Question 16

What fact shows that his radical ideas inhibited the potential for foreign diplomacy

Answer 16

He tried to appease the French by promising to return prisoners in 1849. The french ignored him.

Question 17

When did a Mazziniian uprising in Piedmont fail?

Answer 17

1833

Question 18

What happened to the Mazziniian uprising in Piedmont?

Answer 18

Piedmontese army crushed rebels and 2 executed

Question 19

Whilst many of his actions, such as revolts in Genoa, Savoy and Piedmont, ended in failure, Mazzini did do what for unification?

Answer 19

give huge impetus for the cause and ensured that it remained topical

Question 20

Young Italy had how many members?

Answer 20

50 000

Question 21

Young Italy members were all under what?

Answer 21

40

Question 22

Who did Mazzini convert to the cause of unity?

Answer 22

Garibaldi

Question 23

When was Mazzini in exile in Switzerland?

Answer 23

between 1834 and 49

Question 24

What did Mazzini do whilst in exile in Switzerland?

Answer 24

he wrote thousands of articles and letters in, initially, ‘Antalogia’ and later the journal “Young Italy”.

Question 25

What motto did Mazzini create in Switzerland?

Answer 25

Thought and action

Question 26

Rather than create changes himself, one of Mazzini’s greatest assets was his ability to do what?

Answer 26

encouraged other to continue and pursue the cause

Question 27

What two journal did Mazzini write whilst in Switzerland?

Answer 27

Antalogia and Young Italy

Question 28

Where did Mazzini’s strength lie?

Answer 28

His strength did not lie in himself, but instead in the ability to maintain the cause for others.

Question 29

What shows that Mazzini was prepared to be pragmatic for the goal of a united Italy?

Answer 29

Mazzini also wrote to Charles Albert, accepting a consitutional monarchy as a step towards republicanism and showing himself to be a true nationalist who put political freedom first

Question 30

How long did the Roman Republic last for?

Answer 30

100 days

Question 31

When was the Roman republic established?

Answer 31

February 1849

Question 32

How was the Roman republic ended?

Answer 32

20 000 french troops in July 1849

Question 33

Who was in the Roman Triumvirate?

Answer 33

Mazzini, Armellini and Saffi