WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who among the following started ‘Young Italy?’
A
Metternich
B
Johann Gottfried Herder
C
Giuseppe Mazzini
D
Otto von Bismarck
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -1 Young Italy was a political movement founded by Giuseppe Mazzini, in 1831, to work for the independence of Italy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian revolutionary who was born in Genoa in 1807. He was a member of Carbonari’s secret society. In 1831, at the age of 24, he was exiled for attempting a revolution in Liguria.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mazzini organized a new political society called Young Italy. It was a secret society formed to promote Italian unification: “One, free, independent, republican nation.” Mazzini believed that a popular uprising would create a unified Italy, and would touch off a European-wide revolutionary movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overview. The Giovine Italia was founded in France, in July 1831 when Mazzini was in exile. Its members adopted nicknames taken from figures of the Italian Middle Ages.

Detailed explanation-5: -Giuseppe Mazzini, (born June 22, 1805, Genoa [Italy]-died March 10, 1872, Pisa, Italy), Genoese propagandist and revolutionary, founder of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy (1832), and a champion of the movement for Italian unity known as the Risorgimento.

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