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MAZURKA (See also:Polish for a woman of the See also:province of Mazovia)  , a lively See also:dance, originating in See also:Poland, somewhat resembling the See also:polka . It is danced in couples, the See also:music being ins or 4 See also:time . MAllARA DEL VALLO, a See also:town of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Trapani, on the See also:south-See also:west See also:coast of the See also:island, 32 M. by See also:rail S. of Trapani . Pop . (1901), 20,130 . It is the seat of a See also:bishop; the See also:cathedral, founded in 1093, was rebuilt in the 17th See also:century . The See also:castle, at the south-eastern See also:angle of the town walls, was erected in 1073 . The mouth of the See also:river, which bears the same name, serves as a See also:port for small See also:ships only . Mazzara was in origin a See also:colony of See also:Selinus: it was destroyed in 409, but it is mentioned again as a Carthaginian fortress in the First Punic See also:War and as a See also:post station on the See also:Roman coast road, though whether it had municipal rights is doubtful.' A few See also:inscriptions of the imperial See also:period exist, but no other remains of importance . On the west See also:bank of the river are grottoes cut in the See also:rock, of uncertain date: and there are quarries in theneighbourhood resembling those of See also:Syracuse, but on a smaller See also:scale . See A . See also:Castiglione, Salle cose antiche della cittd di Mazzara (See also:Alcamo, 1878) .

MAllINI, GIUSEPPE (1805-1872), See also:

Italian patriot, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:June 1805 at See also:Genoa, where his See also:father, Giacomo Mazzini, was a physician in See also:good practice, and a See also:professor in the university . His See also:mother is described as having been a woman of See also:great See also:personal beauty, as well as of active See also:intellect and strong affections . During See also:infancy and childhood his See also:health was extremely delicate, and it appears that he was nearly six years of See also:age before he was quite able to walk; but he had already begun to devour books of.all kinds and to show other signs of great intellectual precocity . He studied Latin with his first See also:tutor, ' Th . See also:Mommsen in Corpus inscr. See also:lat . (See also:Berlin, 1883), x . 739 . an old See also:priest, but no one directed his extensive course of See also:reading . He became a student at the university of Genoa at an unusually See also:early age, and intended to follow his father's profession, but being unable to conquer his horror of See also:practical See also:anatomy, he decided to See also:graduate in See also:law (1826) . His exceptional abilities, together with his remarkable generosity, kindness and loftiness of See also:character, endeared him to his See also:fellow students . As to his inner See also:life during this period, we have only one brief but significant See also:sentence; " for a See also:short time," he says, " my mind was some-what tainted by the doctrines of the See also:foreign materialistic school; but the study of See also:history and the intuitions of See also:conscience—the only tests of truth—soon led me back to the See also:spiritualism of our Italian fathers." The natural See also:bent of his See also:genius was towards literature, and, in the course of the four years of his nominal connexion with the legal profession, he wrote a considerable number of essays and reviews, some of which have been wholly or partially reproduced in the See also:critical and See also:literary volumes of his Life and Writings . His first See also:essay, characteristically enough on " See also:Dante's Love of See also:Country," was sent to the editor of the Antologia fiorentina in 1826, but did not appear until some years afterwards in the Subalpino .

He was an ardent supporter of romanticism as against what he called " literary See also:

servitude under the name of classicism "; and in this See also:interest all his critiques (as, for example, that of Giannoni's " See also:Exile " in the Indicatore Livornese, 1829) were penned . But in the meantime the " republican instincts " which he tells us he had inherited from his mother had been developing, and his sense of the evils under which See also:Italy was groaning had been intensified; and at the same time he became possessed with the See also:idea that Italians, and he himself in particular, " could and therefore ought to struggle for See also:liberty of country." Therefore, he at once put aside his dearest ambition, that of producing a See also:complete history of See also:religion, developing his See also:scheme of a new See also:theology uniting the spiritual with the practical life, and devoted himself to See also:political thought . His literary articles accordingly became more and more suggestive of advanced liberalism in politics, and led to the suppression by See also:government of the Indicatore Genovese and the Indicatore Livornese successively . Having joined the See also:Carbonari, he soon See also:rose to one of the higher grades in their See also:hierarchy, and was entrusted with a See also:special See also:secret See also:mission into See also:Tuscany; but, as his acquaintance See also:grew, his dissatisfaction with the organization of the society increased, and he was already meditating the formation of a new association stripped of foolish mysterious and theatrical formulae, which instead of merely combating existing authorities should have a definite and purely patriotic aim, when shortly after the See also:French revolution of I 83o he was betrayed, while initiating a new member, to the Piedmontese authorities . He was imprisoned in the fortress of See also:Savona on the western See also:Riviera for about six months, when, a conviction having been found impracticable through deficiency of See also:evidence, he was released, but upon conditions involving so many restrictions of his liberty that he preferred the alternative of leaving the country . He withdrew accordingly into See also:France, living chiefly in See also:Marseilles . While in his lonely See also:cell at Savona, in presence of " those symbols of the See also:infinite, the See also:sky and the See also:sea," with a See also:greenfinch for his See also:sole See also:companion, and having See also:access to no books but " a See also:Tacitus, a See also:Byron, and a See also:Bible," he had finally become aware of the great mission or " apostolate " (as he himself called it) of his life; and soon after his See also:release his See also:prison meditations took shape in the See also:programme of the organization which was destined soon to become so famous throughout See also:Europe, that of La Giovine Italia, or See also:Young Italy . Its publicly avowed aims were to be the liberation of Italy both from foreign and domestic tyranny, and its unification under a republican See also:form of government; the means to be used were See also:education, and, where advisable, insurrection by See also:guerrilla bands; the See also:motto was to be " See also:God and the See also:people," and the banner was to See also:bear on one See also:side the words " Unity " and " See also:Independence " and on the other " Liberty," " Equality," and " Humanity," to describe respectively the See also:national and the See also:international aims . In See also:April 1831 See also:Charles See also:Albert, " the ex-Carbonaro conspirator of 1821," succeeded Charles See also:Felix on the Sardinian See also:throne, and towards the See also:close of that See also:year Mazzini, making himself, as he afterwards confessed, " the interpreter of a See also:hope which he did not See also:share," wrote the new See also:king a See also:letter, published at Marseilles, urging him to take the See also:lead in the impending struggle for Italian independence . Clandestinely reprinted, and rapidly circulated all over Italy, its bold and out-spoken words produced a great sensation, but so deep was the offence it gave to the Sardinian government that orders were issued for the immediate See also:arrest and imprisonment of the author should he See also:attempt to See also:cross the frontier . Towards the end of the same year appeared the important Young Italy " Manifesto," the substance of which is given in the first See also:volume of the Life and Writings of Mazzini; and this was followed soon afterwards by the society's See also:Journal, which, smuggled across the Italian frontier, had great success in the See also:objects for which it was written, numerous " congregations " being formed at Genoa, See also:Leghorn, and elsewhere . Representations were consequently made by the Sardinian to the French government, which issued in an See also:order for Mazzini's withdrawal from Marseilles (Aug .

1832); he lingered for a few months in concealment, but ultimately found it necessary to retire into See also:

Switzerland . From this point it is somewhat difficult to follow the career of the mysterious and terrible conspirator who for twenty years out of the next See also:thirty led a life of voluntary imprisonment (as he himself tells us) " within the four walls of a See also:room," and " kept no See also:record of See also:dates, made no See also:biographical notes, and preserved no copies of letters." In 1833, however, he is known to have been concerned in an abortive revolutionary See also:movement which took See also:place in the Sardinian See also:army; several executions took place, and he himself was laid under sentence of See also:death . Before the close of the same year a similar movement in Genoa had been planned, but failed through the youth and inexperience of the leaders . At See also:Geneva, also in 1833, Mazzini set on See also:foot L'Europe Centrale, a journal of which one of the See also:main objects was the emancipation of See also:Savoy; but he did not confine himself to a merely literary agitation for this end . Chiefly through his agency a considerable See also:body of See also:German, See also:Polish and Italian exiles was organized, and an armed invasion of the duchy planned . The frontier was actually crossed on the 1st of See also:February 1834, but the attack ignominiously See also:broke down without a shot having been fired . Mazzini, who personally accompanied the expedition, is no doubt correct in attributing the failure to dissensions with the Carbonari leaders in See also:Paris, and to want of a cordial under-See also:standing between himself and the Savoyard Ramorino, who had been chosen as military See also:leader . In April 1834 the " Young Europe " association " of men believing in a future of liberty, equality and fraternity for all mankind, and desirous of consecrating their thoughts and actions to the realization of that future " was formed also under the See also:influence of Mazzini's See also:enthusiasm; it was followed soon after-wards by a " Young Switzerland " society, having for its leading idea the formation of an Alpine See also:confederation, to include Switzerland, Tyrol, Savoy and the See also:rest of the Alpine See also:chain as well . But La Jeune Suisse newspaper was compelled to stop within a year, and in other respects the affairs of the struggling patriot became embarrassed . He was permitted to remain at Grenchen in Solothurn for a while, but at last the Swiss See also:diet, yielding to strong and persistent pressure from abroad, exiled him about the end of 1836 . In See also:January 1837 he arrived in See also:London, where for many months he had to carry on a hard fight with poverty and the sense of spiritual loneliness, so touchingly described by himself in the first volume of the Life and Writings . Ultimately, as he gained command of the See also:English See also:language, he began to See also:earn a livelihood by See also:writing See also:review articles, some of which have since been reprinted, and are of a high order of literary merit; they include papers on "Italian Literature since 183o " and " See also:Paolo See also:Sarpi " in the See also:Westminster Review, articles on " See also:Lamennais," " See also:George See also:Sand," " Byron and See also:Goethe " in the Monthly See also:Chronicle, and on " Lamartine," " See also:Carlyle," and" The See also:Minor See also:Works of Dante " in the See also:British and Foreign Review .

In 1839 he entered into relations with the revolutionary committees sitting in See also:

Malta and Paris, and in 184o he originated a working men's association, and the weekly journal entitled Apostolato read with admiration and intellectual See also:pleasure, as well as his Popolare, in which the admirable popular See also:treatise " On the Duties of See also:Man " was commenced . Among the patriotic and philanthropic labours undertaken by Mazzini during this period of retirement in London may be mentioned a See also:free evening school conducted by himself and a few others for some years, at which several hundreds of Italian See also:children received at least the rudiments of See also:secular and religious education . He also exposed and combated the infamous See also:traffic carried on in See also:southern Italy, where scoundrels bought small boys from poverty-stricken parents and carried them off to See also:England and elsewhere to grind See also:organs and suffer martyrdom at the hands of cruel taskmasters . The most memorable See also:episode in his life during the same period was perhaps that which arose out of the conduct of See also:Sir See also:James See also:Graham, the See also:home secretary, in systematically, for some months, opening Mazzini's letters as they passed through the British post See also:office, and communicating their contents to the Neapolitan government—a proceeding which was believed at the time to have led to the arrest and See also:execution of the See also:brothers See also:Bandiera, See also:Austrian subjects, who had been planning an expedition against See also:Naples, although the See also:recent publication of Sir James Graham's life seems to exonerate him from the See also:charge . The prolonged discussions in See also:parliament, and the See also:report of the See also:committee appointed to inquire into the See also:matter, did not, however, lead to any practical result, unless indeed the incidental vindication of Mazzini's character, which had been recklessly assailed in the course of debate . In this connexion See also:Thomas Carlyle wrote to The Times: " I have had the See also:honour to know Mr Mazzini for a See also:series of years, and, whatever I may think of his practical insight and skill in worldly affairs, I can with great freedom testify that he, if I have ever seen one such, is a man of genius and virtue, one of those rare men, numerable unfortunately but as See also:units in this See also:world, who are worthy to be called See also:martyr souls; who in silence, piously in their daily life, practise what is meant by that." Mazzini did not share the enthusiastic hopes everywhere raised in the ranks of the Liberal party throughout Europe by the first acts of See also:Pius IX., in 1846, but at the same time he availed himself, towards the end of 1847, of the opportunity to publish a letter addressed to the new See also:pope, indicating the nature of the religious and national mission which the Liberals expected him to under-take . The leaders of the revolutionary outbreaks in See also:Milan and See also:Messina in the beginning of 1848 had See also:long been in secret See also:correspondence with Mazzini; and their See also:action, along with the revolution in Paris, brought him early in the same year to Italy, where he took a great and active interest in the events which dragged Charles Albert into an unprofitable war with See also:Austria; he actually for a short time See also:bore arms under See also:Garibaldi immediately before the reoccupation of Milan, but ultimately, after vain attempts to maintain the insurrection in the See also:mountain districts, found it necessary to retire to See also:Lugano . In the beginning of the following year he was nominated a member of the short-lived provisional government of Tuscany formed after the See also:flight of the See also:grand-See also:duke, and almost simultaneously, when See also:Rome had, in consequence of the withdrawal of Pius IX., been proclaimed a See also:republic, he was declared a member of the constituent See also:assembly there . A See also:month afterwards, the See also:battle of See also:Novara having again decided against Charles Albert in the brief struggle with Austria, into which he had once more been See also:drawn, Mazzini was appointed a member of the Roman triumvirate, with supreme executive See also:power (See also:March 23, 1849) . The opportunity he now had for showing the administrative and political ability which he was believed to possess was more apparent than real, for the approach of the professedly friendly French troops soon led to hostilities, and resulted in a See also:siege which terminated, towards the end of June, with the assembly's See also:resolution to discontinue the See also:defence, and Mazzini's indignant resignation . That he succeeded, however, for so long a time, and in circumstances so adverse, in maintaining a high degree of order within the turbulent See also:city is a fact that speaks for itself . His See also:diplomacy, backed as it was by no adequate See also:physical force, naturally showed at the time to very great disadvantage, but his See also:official correspondence and proclamations can still be eloquent vindication of the revolution in his published " Letter to MM. de See also:Tocqueville and de Falioux .

Phoenix-squares

The surrender of the city on the 3oth of June was followed by Mazzini's not too precipitate flight by way of Marseilles into Switzerland, whence he once more found his way to London . Here in 185o he became See also:

president of the National Italian Committee, and at the same time entered into close relations with Ledru-See also:Rollin and See also:Kossuth . He had a See also:firm belief in the value of revolutionary attempts, however hopeless they might seem; he had a See also:hand in the abortive rising at See also:Mantua in 1852, and again, in February 1853, a consider-able share in the See also:ill-planned insurrection at Milan on the 6th of February 1853, the failure of which greatly weakened his influence; once more, in 1854i he had gone far with preparations for renewed action when his plans were completely disconcerted by the withdrawal of professed supporters, and by the action of the French and English governments in sending ships of war to Naples . The year 1857 found him yet once more in Italy, where, for complicity in short-lived emeutes which took place at Genoa, Leghorn and Naples, he was again laid under sentence of death . Undiscouraged in the pursuit of the one great aim of his life by any such incidents as these, he returned to London, where he edited his new journal Pensiero ed Azione, in which the See also:constant See also:burden of his See also:message to the overcautious practical politicians of Italy was: " I am but a See also:voice crying Action; but the See also:state of Italy craes for it also . So do the best men and people of her cities . Do you wish to destroy my influence ? See also:Act." The same See also:tone was at a somewhat later date assumed in the letter he wrote to See also:Victor See also:Emmanuel, urging him to put himself at the See also:head of the movement for Italian unity, and promising republican support . As regards the events of 1859-186o, however, it maybe questioned whether, through his characteristic inability to distinguish between the ideally perfect and the practically possible, he did not actually hinder more than he helped the course of events by which the realization of so much of the great See also:dream of his life was at last brought about . If Mazzini was the See also:prophet of Italian unity, and Garibaldi its See also:knight errant, to See also:Cavour alone belongs the honour of having been the statesman by whom it was finally accomplished . After the irresistible pressure of the popular movement had led to the See also:establishment not of an Italian republic but of an Italian See also:kingdom, Mazzini could honestly enough write, " I too have striven to realize unity under a monarchical See also:flag," but candour compelled him to add, " The Italian people are led astray by a delusion at the See also:present See also:day, a delusion which has induced them to substitute material for moral unity and their own reorganization . Not so I .

I See also:

bow my head sorrowfully to the See also:sovereignty of the national will; but See also:monarchy will never number me amongst its servants or followers." In 1865, by way of protest against the still uncancelled sentence of death under which he See also:lay, Mazzini was elected by Messina as delegate to the Italian parliament, but, feeling himself unable to take the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to the monarchy, he never took his seat . In the following year, when a See also:general See also:amnesty was granted after the cession of See also:Venice to Italy, the sentence of death was at last removed, but he declined to accept such an " offer of oblivion and See also:pardon for having loved Italy above all earthly things." In May 1869 he was again expelled from Switzerland at the instance of the Italian government for having conspired with Garibaldi; after a few months spent in England he set out (187o) for Sicily, but was promptly arrested at sea and carried to See also:Gaeta, where he was imprisoned for two months . Events soon made it evident that there was little danger to fear from the contemplated rising, and the occasion of the See also:birth of a See also:prince was seized for restoring him to liberty . The See also:remainder of his life, spent partly in London and partly at Lugano, presents no noteworthy incidents . For some time his health had been far from satisfactory, but the immediate cause of his death was an attack of See also:pleurisy with which he was seized at See also:Pisa, and which terminated fatally on the loth of March 1872 . The Italian parliament by a unanimous See also:vote expressed the national sorrow with which the tidings of his death had been received, the president pronouncing an eloquent eulogy on the departed patriot as a See also:model of disinterestedness and self-denial, and one who had dedicated his whole life ungrudgingly to the cause of his country's freedom . A public funeral took place at Pisa on the 14th of March, and the remains were afterwards conveyed to Genoa . (J . S . BL.) The published writings of Mazzini, mostly occasional, are very voluminous . An edition was begun by himself and continued by A . See also:Saffi, Scritti editi e inediti di Giuseppe Mazzini, in 18 vols .

(Milan and Rome, 1861—1891); many of the most important are found in the partially autobiographical Life and Writings of See also:

Joseph Mazzini (1864–187o) and the two most systematic—Thoughts upon See also:Democracy in Europe, a remarkable series of criticisms on Benthamism, St Simonian+sm, Fourierism, and other economic and socialistic See also:schools of the day, and the treatise On the Duties of Man, an admirable primer of See also:ethics, dedicated to the Italian working class—will be found in Joseph Mazzini: a Memoir, by Mrs E . A . Venturi (London, 1875) . Mazzini's " first great See also:sacrifice," he tells us, was " the renunciation of the career of literature for the more See also:direct path of political action," and as See also:late as 1861 we find him still recurring to the long-cherished hope of being able to leave the stormy See also:arena of politics and consecrate the last years of his life to the dream of his youth . He had specially contemplated three considerable literary undertakings—a volume of Thoughts on Religion, a popular History of Italy, to enable the working classes to apprehend what he conceived to be the " mission " of Italy in God's providential ordering of the world, and a comprehensive collection of See also:translations of See also:ancient and See also:modern See also:classics into Italian . None of these was actually achieved . No one, however, can read even the briefest and most occasional writing of Mazzini without gaining some impression of the See also:simple grandeur of the man, the lofty See also:elevation of his moral tone, his unwavering faith in the living God, who is ever revealing Himself in the progressive development of humanity . His last public utterance is to be found in a highly characteristic See also:article on See also:Renan's Reforme Morale et Intellectuelle, finished on the 3rd of March 1872, and published in the Fortnightly Review for February 1874 . Of the 40,000 letters of Mazzini only a small See also:part have been published . In 1887 two See also:hundred unpublished letters were printed at See also:Turin (Duecento lettere inedite di Giuseppe Mazzini), in 1895 the Lettres intimes were published in Paris, and in 1905 See also:Francesco Rosso published,Lettre inedite di Giuseppe Mazzini (Turin, 1905) . A popular edition of Mazzini's writings has been undertaken by order of the Italian government . For Mazzini's See also:biography see Jessie See also:White See also:Mario, Della vita di Giuseppe Mazzini (Milan, 1886), a useful if somewhat too enthusiastic See also:work; See also:Bolton King, Mazzini (London, 1903); See also:Count von See also:Schack, Joseph Mazzini and See also:die italienische Einheit (See also:Stuttgart, 1891) .

A . Luzio's Giuseppe Mazzini (Milan, 1905) contains a great See also:

deal of valuable See also:information, See also:bibliographical and other, and Dora Melegari in La giovine Italia e Giuseppe Mazzini (Milan, 1906) publishes the correspondence between Mazzini and See also:Luigi A . Melegari during the early days of " Young Italy." For the literary side of Mazzini's life see Peretti, Gli scritti letterarii di Giuseppe Mazzini (Turin, 1904) . (L . V.*) MAllONI, GIACOMO (1548-1598), Italian philosopher, was born at See also:Cesena and died at See also:Ferrara . A member of a See also:noble See also:family and highly educated, he was one of the most eminent savants of the period . He occupied chairs in the See also:universities of Pisa and Rome, was one of the founders of the Della Crusca See also:Academy, and had the distinction, it is said, of thrice vanquishing the Admirable See also:Crichton in See also:dialectic . His See also:chief work in See also:philosophy was an attempt to reconcile See also:Plato and See also:Aristotle, and in this spirit he published in 1597 a treatise In universam Platonis et Aristotelis philosophiam praecludia . He wrote also De triplici hominum vita, wherein he outlined a theory of the infinite perfection and development of nature . Apart from philosophy, he was prominent in literature as the See also:champion of Dante, and produced two works in the poet's defence: Discorso composto in difesa della comedia di Dante (1572), and Della difesa della comedia di Dante (1587, reprinted 1688) . He was an authority on ancient See also:languages and See also:philology, and gave a great impetus to the scientific study of the Italian language . MAllONI, GUIDO (18J9— ), Italian poet, was born at See also:Florence, and educated at Pisa and See also:Bologna .

In 1887 he became professor of Italian at See also:

Padua, and in 1894 at Florence . He was much influenced by See also:Carducci, and became prominent both as a prolific and well-read critic and as a poet of individual distinction . His chief volumes of See also:verse are Versi (188o), Nuove poesie (1886), Poesie (1891), Voci della vita (1893) .

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