Giuseppina Martinuzzi

Giuseppina Martinuzzi
Born(1844-02-14)14 February 1844
Died25 November 1925(1925-11-25) (aged 81)
OccupationsTeacher, journalist, political activist
Known forSocialist and feminist activism
OfficeMember of the Trieste municipal council
Political party
Italian Socialist Party
Communist Party of Italy
Parent(s)Giovanni Pietro Martinuzzi
Antonia Luis

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.[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

  • 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

  1. ↑ Pizzi, Katia (2002). A City in Search of an Author. A&C Black. pp. 154–157.
  2. 1 2 3 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 - Prominent Istrians - Giuseppina Martinuzzi". www.istrianet.org. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 "In mostra il lascito librario di Giuseppina Martinuzzi". LaVoce del popolo (in Italian). 18 December 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 Martin (15 September 2018). "Klasna borba, a ne klasna suradnja". Slobodni Filozofski (in Croatian). Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Bid on the domain atlantegrandeguerra.it now". nicsell. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "Istarska revolucionarka Giuseppina Martinuzzi". VoxFeminae. Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Scuola Elementare Italiana Giuseppina Martinuzzi Pola". Giuseppina Martinuzzi (in Italian). Retrieved 27 August 2026.
  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. ↑ "Socijalizam i Domovina". Goodreads. Retrieved 27 August 2026.