Giuseppina Martinuzzi (

Albona Labin (Italian/ Istriot: Albona) is a town in Istria, west Croatia, with a town population of 5,806 (2021) and 10,424 in the greater municipality (which also includes the small towns of Rabac-Porto Albona and Vinež-Vines, as well as a number of ...

, 14 February 1844 – Albona, 25 November 1925) was an Italian

pedagogue Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political, and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

, journalist,

socialist Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...

, and

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

Biography

Personal life

Martinuzzi was born in

Labin Labin (Italian language, Italian/Istriot language, Istriot: Albona) is a town in Istria, west Croatia, with a town population of 5,806 (2021) and 10,424 in the greater municipality (which also includes the small towns of Rabac, Rabac-Porto Albona a ...

to Antonia Luis and Giovanni Pietro Martinuzzi (mayor of Labin); she was the eldest of three children. She qualified as a teacher in 1875. La Voce website, ''Exhibition: The book bequest of Giuseppina Martinuzzi'', article by Tanja Skopac dated 18 December 2022
/ref> She lived a long time in

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, where she taught in the poor neighbourhoods of the city, Free Philosophy website, ''Class struggle, not class cooperation'', article by Andrej Gregorin dated 15 September 2018
/ref> helping with the integration of the

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and fighting against narrow nationalistic municipalism. In 1904 she was elected to Trieste municipal council. Atlante Grande Guerra website, ''Giuseppina Martinuzzi''
/ref> 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. She was a leading light in the Women's Socialist Circle and wrote numerous political tracts for the

emancipation Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure Economic, social and cultural rights, economic and social rights, civil and political rights, po ...

of women. In her last prose work, ''Fra italiani e slavi'', she expresses her ideal of

pacifism Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is ...

and ethnic integration. A primary school is named after her in

Pula Pula, also known as Pola, is the largest city in Istria County, west Croatia, and the List of cities and towns in Croatia, seventh-largest city in the country, situated at the southern tip of the Istria, Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, wi ...

Works

* ''Manuale mnemonico'', Trieste, 1886 * ''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 * ''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'' GoodReads website, ''Socijalizam i Domovina''
/ref> * ''Reading Book for Public Schools'' (co-author) * ''Pro Patria'' magazine, 1888 (publisher) * ''Pro Patria Nostra'' magazine, 1889 (publisher)

References

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