British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Giuseppe Mazzini and the Globalization of Democratic Nationalism 1805-2005
Abstract
Mazzini in Brasil
U P Burke, Cambridge
The key period for the influence of Mazzini in Brazil is a short one, 1835-40. The conduit for Mazzini's influence was a small group of admirers, who founded branches of Giovine Italia in the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul. Garibaldi, G. B. Cuneo, and T. L. Zambeccari were among the republicans in exile who propagated the ideas of Mazzini in newspapers and by participating in the revolution in the South. My paper will concentrate on this period but will also attempt to discuss the contribution of Mazzini to the ideas of Italian immigrants to Brazil in the later 19th century, a number of whom described themselves as 'anarchists'.