WORLD HISTORY

NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM IN EUROPE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was Giacomo Mantegazza?
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A French artist who made the print ‘Giuseppe Mazzini and the founding of Young Europe in Berne 1833
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An Italian artist who made the print ‘Giuseppe Mazzini and the founding of Young Europe in Berne 1831
C
An Italian artist who made the print ‘Giuseppe Mazzini and the founding of Young Europe in Berne 1833
D
An Italian artist who made the print ‘Giuseppe Mazzini and the founding of Young Italy in Mainz 1835
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Giacomo Mantegazza (1851 – January 25, 1920) was an Italian painter, known for painting Genre and Orientalist themes. He was born in Saronno. He trained under Gerolamo Induno and Giuseppe Bertini. He was made an honorary member of the Brera Academy.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Mazzini believed that God had intended nations to be the natural units of mankind. So Italy could not continue to be a patchwork of small states and kingdoms. It had to be forged into a single unified republic within a wider alliance of nations. This unification from above could be the basis of Italian unity.

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