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Which social classes made up most of Young Italy’s membership?
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Giuseppe Mazzini
Giuseppe Mazzini, detail of an oil painting by Luigi Zuccoli, 1865; in the Museo del Risorgimento, Milan.
Although Giuseppe Mazzini envisioned Young Italy as a democratic movement intended to embrace all classes to achieve a popular revolution, the organization remained a middle-class movement throughout its existence.12