Giuseppina Martinuzzi Explained

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

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.^[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.^[8] 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.^[9]

Works

• 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
• 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^[11]
• 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^[12]
• Reading Book for Public Schools (co-author)
• Pro Patria magazine, 1888 (publisher)
• Pro Patria Nostra magazine, 1889 (publisher)

Notes and References

1. Book: Pizzi . Katia . A City in Search of an Author . 2002 . A&C Black . 154–157.
2. Book: Camboni . Marina . 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 . 2004 . Ed. di Storia e Letteratura . 149–151.
3. Book: de Vries . Boudien . Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe . 2016 . Routledge . 97.
4. https://www.istrianet.org/istria/illustri/martinuzzi/index.htm Istria on the Internet website, Josephine Martinuzzi
5. 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 December 18, 2022
6. https://slobodnifilozofski.com/2018/09/klasna-borba-ne-klasna-suradnja.html Free Philosophy website, Class struggle, not class cooperation, article by Andrej Gregorin dated September 15, 2018
7. https://www.atlantegrandeguerra.it/portfolio/giuseppina-martinuzzi/ Atlante Grande Guerra website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi
8. https://voxfeminae.net/strasne-zene/istarska-revolucionarka-giuseppina-martinuzzi/ Vox Feminae website, Istrian Revolutionary Giuseppina Martinuzzi
9. https://se-gmartinuzzi.hr/ Giuseppina Martinuzzi Primary School official website
10. https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/428740 Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals website, Giuseppina Martinuzzi - an Old Town teacher
11. 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
12. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6623397-socijalizam-i-domovina GoodReads website, Socijalizam i Domovina