Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . d he organ-ized in the same spirit the ^^ Young Switzer-land^* and the ^* Young Europe,** fosteringthe idea of universal political reform, andthe bringing in of a new era of the world,in which free popular government shoulddisplace the old systems both of legitimate monarchy and despotic individualism. Banished from Switzerlandunder a decree of the French government, in 1836 Mazzini foundrefuge in London; and for the remainder of his life the English presswas the chief organ of his world-wide influence as a reformer, whilehis literar
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . d he organ-ized in the same spirit the ^^ Young Switzer-land^* and the ^* Young Europe,** fosteringthe idea of universal political reform, andthe bringing in of a new era of the world,in which free popular government shoulddisplace the old systems both of legitimate monarchy and despotic individualism. Banished from Switzerlandunder a decree of the French government, in 1836 Mazzini foundrefuge in London; and for the remainder of his life the English presswas the chief organ of his world-wide influence as a reformer, whilehis literary ability won him a place among the brilliant of themodern British essayists. Only for brief intervals did Mazzini appearagain in Italy; notably in the period of 1848 and 1849, when, on theinsurrection of Sicily and Venetian Lombardy and the flight of PioNono from Rome, like a Rienzi of the nineteenth century he issuedfrom that city of the soul** the declaration of the Roman Republic,and was elected one of the triumvirs. He led in a heroic resistance. Joseph Mazzini p844 JOSEPH MAZZINI to the besieging French army until compelled to yield; and he wascontent to have brought forth from the conflict the unstained banner,^God and the People, ^^ to be the standard for all future struggles forthe union of free Italy under the rightful leadership of Rome. In1857 he again took part in person in the insurrections in Genoa andin Sicily, and was laid under sentence of death, a judgment which wasremoved in 1865. In 1870, on his attempting to join Garibaldi inSicily, he was arrested at sea and imprisoned at Gaeta, to be releasedin two months, as the danger of a general insurrection all this time he had been carrying on, mainly from England,his propaganda through the press; publishing in 1852, in the West-minster Review, the essay ^Europe, its Conditions and Prospects,^completing in 1858 <The Duties of Man,* and addressing open lettersto Pio Nono, to Louis Napoleo
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