Giuseppina Martinuzzi
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{{short description|Italian pedagogue and feminist}}
Giuseppina Martinuzzi (Albona, 14 February 1844 – Albona, 25 November 1925) was an Italian pedagogue, journalist, socialist, and feminist.{{cite book |last1=Pizzi |first1=Katia |title=A City in Search of an Author |date=2002 |publisher=A&C Black |pages=154–157}}{{cite book |last1=Camboni |first1=Marina |title=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 |date=2004 |publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |pages=149–151}}{{cite book |last1=de Vries |first1=Boudien |title=Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |page=97}}
Biography
=Personal life=
Martinuzzi was born in Labin to Antonia Luis and Giovanni Pietro Martinuzzi (mayor of Labin); she was the eldest of three children.[https://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/martinuzzi/index.htm Istria on the Internet website, Josephine Martinuzzi] She qualified as a teacher in 1875.[https://lavoce.hr/reportage/in-mostra-il-lascito-librario-di-giuseppina-martinuzzi La Voce website, Exhibition: The book bequest of Giuseppina Martinuzzi, article by Tanja Skopac dated 18 December 2022]
She lived a long time in Trieste, where she taught in the poor neighbourhoods of the city,[https://slobodnifilozofski.com/2018/09/klasna-borba-ne-klasna-suradnja.html Free Philosophy website, Class struggle, not class cooperation, article by Andrej Gregorin dated 15 September 2018] helping with the integration of the Slovenians and fighting against narrow nationalistic municipalism. In 1904 she was elected to Trieste municipal council.[https://www.atlantegrandeguerra.it/portfolio/giuseppina-martinuzzi/ Atlante Grande Guerra website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi]
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.[https://voxfeminae.net/strasne-zene/istarska-revolucionarka-giuseppina-martinuzzi/ Vox Feminae website, Istrian Revolutionary Giuseppina Martinuzzi] She was a leading light in the Women's Socialist Circle and wrote numerous political tracts for the emancipation of women. In her last prose work, Fra italiani e slavi, she expresses her ideal of pacifism and ethnic integration.
A primary school is named after her in Pula.[https://se-gmartinuzzi.hr/ Giuseppina Martinuzzi Primary School official website]
Works
- Manuale mnemonico, Trieste, 1886[https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/428740 Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi - an Old Town teacher]
- 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
- Libertà e schiavitù, Trieste, 1899
- Patria e socialismo, Trieste, 1899
- Among the irredents, 1899
- 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
- Ingiustizia, Trieste, 1907
- Nazionalismo morboso e internazionalismo affarista, Trieste, 1911[https://www.openstarts.units.it/server/api/core/bitstreams/b9818902-5d96-4a34-bf00-62252c81e683/content 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]
- Maternità dolorosa, Trieste, 1911
- Invito alla luce, Trieste, 1912
- Ai giovani socialisti, Trieste, 1912
- Amilcare Cipriani, Trieste, 1913
- Fra italiani e slavi, 1914
- Socijalizam i Domovina[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6623397-socijalizam-i-domovina GoodReads website, Socijalizam i Domovina]
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