>>507795052Giuseppe Mazzini was a "republican" and "nationalist" and "liberal" terrorist and revolutionary, active in the second half of the nineteenth century (I use these words with the meaning they had back then).
He hated the nobility, the clergy and all those reactionary forces like Austria which opposed Italian unification.
He didn't think any political goal could be achieved through licit means, so (much like many other people in his age), he believed the most effective way to enact change was through secret societies and covert revolutionary action.
He wasn't quite on board with Freemasonry, so he partook to another secret society, the Italian Carboneria, and later decided that wasn't enough, so he was founder of two more secret societies: "Giovine Italia" and "Giovine Europa" - meaning that just by the information that is publicly available he was part of three different secret societies minimum.
Through an anti-papist coup in 1849 he overtook the Pope and founded a short lived "Second Roman Republic".
In time, it is known that his relationship soured with Garibaldi and most of all with Karl Marx, because these people didn't advocate for civic duty and the unity of classes enough. Apparently he thought the USA were too individualistic too.
Since he was a revolutionary and a terrorist, monarchist Italy never forgave him, and he died in hiding after being sentenced to exile.
Today he is seen as a national hero, but what he did is not fully known because he worked behind the scenes.
The Mafia remembers him fondly as one of their "Three Knights".
He was probably a gnostic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwFp8mYg18