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“The beating heart of Italy” (Italian listening + transcript)

August 29, 2014 by Daniel

I think this is number 6 in our series of mini-biographies of Italians with streets or schools named after them.

The others were: Garibaldi | Marconi | Cavour | Galvani | Leonardo da Vinci

If you’re finding the level of this material difficult (it is), there are plenty of easier listening texts and other materials accessible from our ‘Free Online Italian Exercises‘ page.

But anyway, on with today’s hero, Giuseppe Mazzini, known as the ‘beating heart of Italy’.

Why?

Listen and find out.

(If you’re reading this in an e-mail, you’ll likely not see the audio plug-in at all. To listen, therefore, click here to view this article on our website.)

Transcript

GIUSEPPE MAZZINI

Mazzini non si considerava un rivoluzionario come gli altri, non pensava a una rivoluzione come a una rivendicazione dei suoi diritti o della sua posizione, ma come un dovere religioso che doveva portare avanti.
Fu chiamato dal popolo ‘il cuore che batte dell’Italia’.

Giuseppe Mazzini fu un patriota, giornalista, e politico italiano. Nacque a Genova nel 1805, figlio di Giacomo Mazzini, un professore dell’Università, e Maria Drago, conosciuta per la sua bellezza e per il suo spirito religioso.

Mazzini a soli 15 anni venne ammesso all’Università, dove studiò prima medicina e poi legge. Si mostrò sempre interessato alla politica. Quando si iscrisse alla Carboneria, un’associazione politica segreta, venne arrestato nel 1830 e condannato all’esilio.

A Marsiglia fondò la Giovine Italia, un’associazione che fu fondamentale per i movimenti italiani del Risorgimento. Nel 1834 diede vita a un’altra società, la Giovine Europa, il cui scopo era quello di affratellare tutti i popoli d’Europa.

Nel 1837 si spostò a Londra, dove poté tranquillamente diffondere le sue idee, attraverso suoi articoli sui giornali.

Venendo a sapere delle cinque giornate di Milano e delle lotte per l’unificazione d’Italia, nel 1848 tornò in Italia, nel 1849 diventò l’esponente principale della Repubblica Romana insieme a Saffi e Armellini.

Il sogno di Mazzini era quello di costituire un’Italia libera, indipendente e repubblicana.

Tornò di nuovo in Svizzera e in Inghilterra. Si allontanò dalle idee di Cavour sull’unità d’Italia sotto al potere del re. Organizzò vari movimenti di insurrezione, che gli provocarono l’esilio. Tornò in Italia sotto falso nome e morì a Pisa nel 1872.

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Comments

  1. Gary Yellin says

    August 30, 2014 at 1:47 am

    Dear Daniel,
    I don’t understand why it remains so cumbersome to get from the email link to the actual listening exercise. Someone really should look into this and make it so when you click on the email link, you’re taken direct to the Soundcloud recording.

    Respectfully,
    Gary Yellin

    • Daniel says

      August 30, 2014 at 9:44 am

      You receive an e-mail. You decide to do the listening, so you click the link. Your browser opens and you should see the article, but the ‘site’ version, not the email.

      There’s a plugin mid-way down the page with a white ‘play’ arrow in it. You click the white ‘play’ arrow, and the listening starts. While you listen, you can scroll down and read the transcript.

      Doesn’t sound cumbersome to me, Gary. But obviously that’s not what you see at your end. So, perhaps you could describe what exactly is happening for you now, Gary?

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