Giuseppina Martinuzzi (Albona, 14 February 1844 – Albona, 25 November 1925) was an Italian pedagogue, journalist, socialist, and feminist.[1][2][3]

Biography

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Personal life

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Martinuzzi was born in Labin to Antonia Luis and Giovanni Pietro Martinuzzi (mayor of Labin); she was the eldest of three children.[4] She qualified as a teacher in 1875.[5]

She lived a long time in Trieste, where she taught in the poor neighbourhoods of the city,[6] helping with the integration of the Slovenians and fighting against narrow nationalistic municipalism. In 1904 she was elected to Trieste municipal council.[7]

She joined the Communist Party of Italy in 1921 and soon founded, and became the political secretary of, the Women's Communist Group of Trieste.[6][8] She was a leading light in the Women's Socialist Circle and wrote numerous political tracts for the emancipation of women.[2] In her last prose work, Fra italiani e slavi, she expresses her ideal of pacifism and ethnic integration.[2]

A primary school is named after her in Pula.[9]

Works

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  • Manuale mnemonico, Trieste, 1886[10]
  • I semprevivi. In memoria de' miei cari ed amati genitori Giovanni ed Antonia Martinuzzi, Rovereto 1896
  • Nelle caverne di S. Canziano, Udine, 1897
  • Albona. 20 genn. 1599 – 20 genn. 1899, Trieste, 1899
  • Semprevivi, 1896[7]
  • Libertà e schiavitù, Trieste, 1899
  • Patria e socialismo, Trieste, 1899[7]
  • Among the irredents, 1899[7]
  • Presente e avvenire, Firenze, 1900
  • Edmondo De Amicis e la questione sociale, Trieste, 1900
  • The national struggle in Istria considered as an obstacle to socialism, 1900[7]
  • Ingiustizia, Trieste, 1907
  • Nazionalismo morboso e internazionalismo affarista, Trieste, 1911[11]
  • Maternità dolorosa, Trieste, 1911
  • Invito alla luce, Trieste, 1912
  • Ai giovani socialisti, Trieste, 1912
  • Amilcare Cipriani, Trieste, 1913
  • Fra italiani e slavi, 1914[7]
  • Socijalizam i Domovina[12]


  • Reading Book for Public Schools (co-author)[6]
  • Pro Patria magazine, 1888 (publisher)[5]
  • Pro Patria Nostra magazine, 1889 (publisher) [5]

References

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  1. ^ Pizzi, Katia (2002). A City in Search of an Author. A&C Black. pp. 154–157.
  2. ^ a b c Camboni, Marina (2004). Networking Women: Subjects, Places, Links Europe-America : Towards a Re-writing of Cultural History, 1890–1939: Proceedings of the International Conference, Macerata, March 25–27, 2002. Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. pp. 149–151.
  3. ^ de Vries, Boudien (2016). Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Routledge. p. 97.
  4. ^ Istria on the Internet website, Josephine Martinuzzi
  5. ^ a b c La Voce website, Exhibition: The book bequest of Giuseppina Martinuzzi, article by Tanja Skopac dated December 18, 2022
  6. ^ a b c Free Philosophy website, Class struggle, not class cooperation, article by Andrej Gregorin dated September 15, 2018
  7. ^ a b c d e f Atlante Grande Guerra website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi
  8. ^ Vox Feminae website, Istrian Revolutionary Giuseppina Martinuzzi
  9. ^ Giuseppina Martinuzzi Primary School official website
  10. ^ Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi - an Old Town teacher
  11. ^ Università di Trieste website, Open Starts section, «L’incancellabile diritto ad essere quello che siamo», La saggistica politico-civile di Giani Stuparich by Fulvio Senardi, page 62
  12. ^ GoodReads website, Socijalizam i Domovina