Giuseppe Mazzini nicknamed Soul of Italy, was an Italian

Italy

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 politician

Politician

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, journalist

Journalist

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 and activist for the unification of Italy

Italian unification

Italian unification was the political and social movement that agglomerated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of Italy in the 19th century...

. His efforts helped bring about the independent and unified Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state

Radicalism (historical)

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Mazzini was born in Genoa

Genoa

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, then part of the Ligurian Republic

Ligurian Republic

The Ligurian Republic was a short-lived French client republic formed by Napoleon on 14 June 1797. It consisted of the old Republic of Genoa which covered most of the Ligurian region of Northwest Italy, and the small Imperial fiefs owned by the House of Savoy inside its territory...

, under the rule of the French Empire

First French Empire

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