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Giuseppe Mazzini

Genova 1805 - Pisa 1872
Italian politician, journalist and activist for the unification of Italy and spearheaded the Italian revolutionary movement. ; considered, with Cavour, Victor Emmanuel II, and Garibaldi, as one of Italy's 'fathers of the fatherland'
(Wikipedia)

Alessandro Biggi
1892

Description

Marble statue of Mazzini with a newspaper in his hands. On the pedestal is a relief of the Capitoline Wolf, with the date 1849, and at the foot flags and books.

Carrara - Giuseppe Mazzini

According to the Biennale booklet, the pedestal is sculpted by the sculptor Giuseppe Garibaldi (we haven't found any other source for the existence of this sculptor).

Inscription(s)

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MAZZINI
1892

Sculptor

Alessandro Biggi (Carrara 1848-1926), Italian sculptor.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Carrara.
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, 2010, p. 187 (PDF on-line).
Edoardo De Carli, Chi era Costui?
Soprintendenza patrimonio storico, artistico ed etnoantropologico e per i beni architettonici e paesaggio per le Province di Lucca e Massa Carrara, Carrara - Statuaria pubblica e installazioni.
Marbleland, Carrara.

Locatie (N 44°4'42" - E 10°5'56") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: itto133; Photograph: 15 May 2017
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