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MAMELI, GOFFREDO (1827—1849)

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MAMELI, GOFFREDO (1827—1849) , See also:Italian poet and patriot, was See also:born at See also:Genoa of a See also:noble Sardinian See also:family. He received a See also:sound classical See also:education at the Scolopi See also:College, and later studied See also:law and See also:philosophy at the university of Genoa. When nineteen years old he corresponded with Mazzini, to whom he became whole-heartedly devoted; among other patriotic poems he wrote a hymn to the See also:Bandiera See also:brothers, and in the autumn of 1847 a See also:song called " Fratelli d'Italia," which as See also:Carducci wrote, " resounded through every See also:district and on every battlefield of the See also:peninsula in 1848 and 1849." Mameli served in the See also:National Guard at Genoa, and then joined the See also:volunteers in the Lombard See also:campaign of 1848, but after the collapse of the See also:movement in See also:Lombardy he went to See also:Rome, where the ;See also:republic was proclaimed and whence he sent the famous despatch to Mazzini: "See also:Roma! Repubblica! Venite! " At first he wrote See also:political articles in the See also:newspapers, but when the See also:French See also:army approached the See also:city with hostile intentions he joined the fighting ranks and soon won See also:Garibaldi's esteem by his bravery. Although wounded in the engagement of the 3oth of See also:April, he at once resumed his See also:place in the ranks, but on the 3rd of See also:June he was again wounded much more severely, and died in the Pellegrini See also:hospital on the 6th of See also:July 1849. Besides the poems mentioned above, he wrote See also:hymns to See also:Dante, to the Apostles, " Dio e popolo," &c. The See also:chief merit of his See also:work lies in the spontaneity and See also:enthusiasm for the Italian cause which rendered it famous, in spite of certain technical imperfections, and he well deserved the epithet of " The See also:Tyrtaeus of the Italian revolution." See A. G. See also:Barrili, " G. Mameli nella vita e nell' arte," in Nuova Antologia (June 1, 1902); the same writer's edition of the Scritti editi ed inediti di G.

Mameli (Genoa, 1902); Countess Martinengo Cesaresco, Italian Characters (See also:

London, 1901) ; A. Lazio, Profili Biografici (See also:Milan, 1906); G. Trevelyan, Garibaldi's See also:Defence of the See also:Roman Republic (London, 1907).

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